Possessive Portuguese by Flora Ferrari

I thought Possessive Portuguese was the name of my dad’s best friend’s sailing yacht.

But after I take possession of my high school diploma, and he possesses yet another victory in the Regata de Portugal, my dad takes me abroad for a sailing trip for the three of us to celebrate…and I find out what Possessive Portuguese really means for the very first time.

After we lock lips in Lisbon, this older man sailing skipper says he wants to skip past all the formalities because he’s already obsessed with putting a baby inside this younger woman.

Portuguese men discovered the world, but what happens the first time this older man discovers this younger woman has yet to be claimed?

Will the idea of my dad’s best friend’s obsession with his daughter make my dad more than seasick as we make our way around the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic, or will the two of us sail off into the sunset, the wind at our backs forever?