Author Tracey Garvis Graves took her novel, On the Island, through the journey of self-publishing, only to see it become a best-selling hit. It follows Anna, a young teacher, and TJ, a student recovering from cancer, as they travel to his family’s vacation home for a summer of tutoring. However, when their plane crashes, they are left stranded in the middle of the Maldives’ twelve hundred islands, most of which are uninhabited.