Float Plan

When life throws you overboard, learn to float.

Will Larkin teaches algebra and has been married 2.92 years (he never rounds off). He has no children, two friends and one dog. His life is perfectly routine until he loses his wife, job, dog, boat and even his freedom all in one spectacularly hard year.

He also didn't plan on falling in love with vet tech named Parker Cool.

Float Plan is a contemporary novel featuring a chainsaw attack on a gazebo, a basset hound named Dean and a life-saving mozzarella stick. At its quirky, serious heart, the story is about what happens to a young man who steers himself toward love, forgiveness and happiness. Or close enough.

Float Plan is also a love letter to Annapolis and Baltimore - and to fathers and mothers, old friends, dogs, boats and second chances.

A native of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Hiaasen lived in Maryland for almost 25 years, where he wrote for The Baltimore Sun for much of that time. More recently he was an award-winning columnist and editor at The Capital in Annapolis. His published fiction is a short story in the mystery anthology, Baltimore Noir (Akashic Press). Hiaasen's journalism has also appeared in The Washington Post Sunday Magazine and The Los Angeles Times.