About the Book
Book: Cruise to Death
Author: Sara L. Jameson
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 1, 2021
When opera singer Riley Williams agrees to sub as a musical-theater performer on a luxury Rhine/Moselle riverboat cruise, she gets more than she bargained for. Not only must she come up with 250 Broadway songs, she is required to dance with the male passengers. Dance—the subject she nearly failed in her Conservatory courses, and the cause of her recent flop in a European Opera House. To make matters worse, she overhears two terrorists at a café in Antwerp, Belgium, discussing the transfer of deadly agent X to the highest bioterrorist bidders.
Interpol agent Jacob Coulter, an anti-terrorism desk analyst in Brussels, Belgium, insists on serving as an undercover agent after his best friend Noel is murdered by terrorists from the Brussels cell he infiltrates. Shortly before Noel dies, he manages to tell Jacob snippets of the terrorists’ plans. Plans that seem to involve the same riverboat cruise Riley is on. When Interpol learns of Riley’s encounter with terrorists, Jacob’s supervisor insists he work with her to identify the terrorists and retrieve agent X. But their relationship is fraught with distrust because of Riley’s suspicious past and a romantic attraction neither of them wants.
Book Excerpt
Within twenty feet, he’d left a human flesh market and entered little Mecca.
Shop signs in Arabic hawked everything from hijabs and sumptuous wedding gowns to housewares and electronics. As a kid, he’d never considered blond hair and blue eyes a deterrent to protecting the world. Here, his American haircut and suit might as well be draped with the stars and stripes. This was Schaerbeek, home to disenfranchised Muslims and a terrorist bomb-making factory.
The tantalizing smell of kebab shops hit him, but he headed for the electronics store. If Noel worked in the area, he might not have been able to leave work to meet him. Terrorist-cell infiltration meant he would be watched day and night. Even making the phone call could have unmasked his cover. And after two months, he might be unrecognizable if he’d grown a straggly beard and donned traditional Muslim garb.
Inside the store, dimly lit glass cases housed an array of Mac and PC computers and neat rows of cellphones. Two computers lay on the counter. One of them, tuned to AraBel FM, blared an Arabic song in French.
Shoulders gyrating in time to the music, the salesclerk drummed his fingers on the counter while a young man in jeans and a T-shirt toyed with the other computer.
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About the Author
Sara L. Jameson won Scrivenings Press’s grand prize publishing contract in January 2021. They released her debut romantic suspense novel, Cruise to Death, in June 2021. Death in High Places, (Book 2 in the Troubled Waters series), released February 2023, followed by Vengeance in Vienna, July 2024.
In real life, Sara is a multi-published, former university professor who writes non-fiction under her real name and edits book manuscripts for other authors. She also pens WWII historical novels. When not at her computer, she enjoys reading, swimming, cooking, dog-sitting, and spending time with friends.