The Raft is a thrilling novel of survival from award-winning author S.A. Bodeen. Robie is an experienced traveler. She s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll a group of Pacific islands where her parents live many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the pilot but on this flight there s a new co-pilot named Max. All systems are go until a storm hits during the flight. The only passenger Robie doesn t panic until the engine suddenly cuts out and Max shouts at her to put on a life jacket. They are over miles of Pacific Ocean. She sees Max struggle with a raft. And then . . . she s in the water. Fighting for her life. Max pulls her onto the raft and that s when the real terror begins. They have no water. Their only food is a bag of Skittles. There are sharks. There is an island. But there s no sign of help on the way.