This senior citizen and deep water don’t mix.
They’re back! They’re back! Leona Walker, her sister Betty, and neighbor Clarence with his squeaky-wheeled walker are going on a cruise with their coffee group. Before they even set sail, Leona finds herself entangled with a smuggler ring. A man who claims to be with Interpol needs her help in solving who is involved with the ring and who is not. Not knowing who to trust, Leona fights her fear of deep water and uncertainty of who to trust. She’s determined not to put her friends in danger again but is it unavoidable? in this new cozy mystery. Find out in Book 2 of the Oldsters Love Adventures series.
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Sample:
Face your fears, Leona Walker’s friends told her. You’ll love it. Stupid advice, but more stupid was her acting on it. She didn’t know how to swim, and water, especially deep water, terrified her. So why was she, a landlubber from Red Creek, South Dakota, standing in a large building on the bay in Galveston, Texas, waiting to get on a very large boat?
Her friends had coerced her into it. They used her love of reading and the height of her to-be-read pile against her. “Go on a cruise,” they said. “You can read all day, eat without cooking or cleaning up, and wear your sandals and shorts in the warm sunshine of mid-November.” They ganged up on her to make it sound like paradise and had even clicked the Buy button for her. She had no one to blame but herself for letting them control her and her computer for a moment of time.
Through the large windows, she could see the water and waves outside. Being near water deep enough to go over her head always sent a chill up her spine. Her terror stemmed from a bad incident in childhood when she nearly drowned. If not for her cousin who rescued her, she would have died that day. The episode still haunted her.
Never had she dreaded a trip so much, or anything else for that matter. Unable to find a way of backing out without losing her money, she resolved to be strong and do it. She’d done a Google search and found out people of high weight float better than the ones who kept their weight on the low end of the scale. All the biological bubble wrap encasing her body would help her stay on the surface when the ship sank, a comforting thought she clung to like a ring buoy. To make sure she had a chance, she gained five pounds before leaving. Of course, that necessitated buying new clothes for the voyage.