Last year (or perhaps2024) I read a story about a teen who was moved from the USA to Monaco. He was living there with a family, being educated and learning to sail. After a while they were going to sail across the Mediterranean then across the Atlantic. Whilst in the Mediterranean they rescued another family from a sinking boat. Adventures in the Caribbean and then the baddies killed a friend and he vowed revenge. That's all I remember.
Before it was rewritten as Because you were Cold, it was Lighting in a Bottle (I think).
If my memory is right, it was a two book set with about a five year gap between the first 2/3s of the second book and the final 1/3 of the book.
After another number of years he reposted the two books as one with the new title.
Before it was rewritten as Because you were Cold, it was Lighting in a Bottle (I think).
Thanks - I'd been trying to remember the original title. Although I think it was lightning, not lighting.
AJ
There is a story - can't remember the name - where a teen boy develops some sort of powers and is sent to France (I think) to recuperate. The sailing comes into play then, there's a rescue of a family, and the boat then sails to the Caribbean and finally the U.S. where the U.S. military/bureaucrats try to confiscate it/him, and he winds up going under water for hours to evade detection and capture. Is this a part of the story you're looking for? Hoping I didn't just gum up the search - but maybe someone will recognize it with the more robust description.