Twenty-two year old Grace McCaffrey is humiliated when she can't find a job after graduating college and has to move back in with her parents. She always assumed she'd do something big with her life-create change or do something that matters-not work at the Banner Market as a cashier. Soon, Grace gets roped into being a chaperone for a high school backpacking trip with her ex-boyfriend, Miles Dalby. However, she quickly learns these students are part of a mentorship program for troubled youth. As she tries to get them to open up, Grace starts to doubt herself. How can she make a difference in the world if she can't even help these students? Or is her mom right and sometimes it's the little things that can make all the difference?

(UNDER HEAVY EDITING) Elizabeth Pollard, daughter of Captain George Pollard, is an unusually talented girl who lives for adventure and excitement. After being asked to join the Whaleship Essex, her life as she knew it would change forever after being assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. Through thick and thin, panic and despair, starvation and thirst, love and lust, what will happen as the story of Moby Dick unfolds and what will happen to the once innocent girl of New England as she does the unthinkable to stay alive. [Do not copy this fanfic onto other pages and sites or I will feed you to Moby Dick] DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the original characters used in this story. They are the property of their creators.