Terry Jo Duperrault was eleven years old when her family was murdered at sea aboard a rented sailboat while vacationing off the coast of Florida. She jumped overboard just in time to escape. Surviving four days on a piece of cork in the middle of the ocean, Terry Jo’s rescue pictures graced LIFE Magazine soon after her rescue. This is the first time Terry Jo, now known as Tere, has ever been able to fully tell her story. In September 1988 Oprah Winfrey reunited her with the freighter captain who saved her but, even then, she was not healed enough to reveal what it takes to survive for four days alone at sea. Co-authored by renowned psychologist and survival expert Richard Logan, readers delve into the details of how a young girl survived the murder of her family and much more.