Montserrat

Montserratis a fictional narrative about dreams, desires, danger, and Nature's absolute fury. Bob Fronheiser is unhappy. Despondent with life, his job, his son, and his failing marriage, he's ready for a transformation. While cruising the Caribbean, he catches the "tropical bug"! Deciding to buy a hotel, he encounters Rich Schmidt, a shady eccentric with larceny in his heart. Bob and Schmitty stumble onto Montserrat, a sleepy, volcanic, Caribbean island, replete with earthquakes and pyroclastic flows. Bob befriends Anne Cox, the alluring owner of the Flora y Fauna Inn. Enter Si Pepp, a profane and bitter financier with his own brand of causticity. Bob buys the Shamrock Resort, a run-down hotel, in total disrepair from years of neglect. Meantime, back in the states, Bob's family falls farther into the abyss, and Jack his son becomes a test of wills. The adventure begins. The opinion of the island's inhabitants was that "It can't happen here," and life went on peacefully until an early December's evening. The stories crescendo when the SoufriA]re confronts the characters and forever changes their lives. Montserrat is a fictional story loosely based on the devastation and peril of a major volcanic eruption.