KEY WEST and CUBA 1955 is a novel showing a young woman maturing from self-interest to the importance of family. Healing from a brief affair in San Francisco she starts on the journey to reestablish bonding with her brothers, separated when their parents had died many years prior. After traveling to Canada, New York and Mystic, Connecticut, she chooses to move to Key West, Florida. Working for the "Key West Courier" newspaper, she is sent to the island of Cuba to write travel articles. Although innocent, she is suspected of being a spy, unaware she is transporting illegal papers. She suffers precarious situations.