MMP has light shelfwear to edges. Pages tight and clean, but yellowed due to age. Spine has small creases. pages. MMP Binding. Year: 1999. ISBN: 1551664712. Thirty-three years ago in New Orleans, two young families went cruising on a small yacht. The night was beautiful, the sea calm. And yet the boat, prophetically named Mayday, sank. Six-year-old Kate Madison lost her father, and her best friend, Amber Castille, lost her mother. Neither of the girls remembered anything about that night.