| Author: | Susan Oleksiw | ISBN: | 9780983600060 |
| Publisher: | Susan Oleksiw | Publication: | September 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Susan Oleksiw |
| ISBN: | 9780983600060 |
| Publisher: | Susan Oleksiw |
| Publication: | September 3, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
In the middle of the tourist season in tropical South India, four American women meet over breakfast at the Hotel Delite, managed by Anita Ray, an Indian-American young woman, and her aunt. Two of the Americans, Jean and Marge, are nurses traveling together; Emily is traveling with friends, and Candy is traveling alone. Jean boasts she is on her way to Thailand, and from there plans to cross into Burma on a secret humanitarian mission, her second. Everyone is suitably impressed, including Anita.
But within twenty-four house at the resort, one of the women is deathly ill and another is missing. Anita can find no cause for the first woman's sudden bad turn, and a search of the area turns up nothing more than a fragment of a sweater the missing woman was last seen wearing.
While Anita continues to search for the missing woman, she must also contend with a man shadowing her and a suspicious series of encounters in the hotel ledger, payments to a mysterious employee she has never seen. When Anita is attacked by an unknown man, two of the least likely helpers come to her aid, offering a terrifying simple solution.
For all their beauty and lushness, the tropics can have unexpected effects on newcomers, some of them permanent. This story opens up a little-known world of life behind the scenes in an exotic setting.
In the middle of the tourist season in tropical South India, four American women meet over breakfast at the Hotel Delite, managed by Anita Ray, an Indian-American young woman, and her aunt. Two of the Americans, Jean and Marge, are nurses traveling together; Emily is traveling with friends, and Candy is traveling alone. Jean boasts she is on her way to Thailand, and from there plans to cross into Burma on a secret humanitarian mission, her second. Everyone is suitably impressed, including Anita.
But within twenty-four house at the resort, one of the women is deathly ill and another is missing. Anita can find no cause for the first woman's sudden bad turn, and a search of the area turns up nothing more than a fragment of a sweater the missing woman was last seen wearing.
While Anita continues to search for the missing woman, she must also contend with a man shadowing her and a suspicious series of encounters in the hotel ledger, payments to a mysterious employee she has never seen. When Anita is attacked by an unknown man, two of the least likely helpers come to her aid, offering a terrifying simple solution.
For all their beauty and lushness, the tropics can have unexpected effects on newcomers, some of them permanent. This story opens up a little-known world of life behind the scenes in an exotic setting.
