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
CHAPTER ONE
Brussels, Belgium
June 1st
Despite the cool night air, sweat plastered Agent Jacob Coulter’s shirt to his skin. He’d never have raced over to Schaerbeek in a business suit—not even for his best bud—but panic had riddled Noel’s voice on the phone like a machine gun gone rogue.
Jacob inched a few feet along the brick wall between the brothels. The beams of red light around the windows still caught his six-foot-one frame in their crosshairs. Five years of analyzing terrorist intel at an Interpol desk had left his field skills rusty.
A parade of vehicles snaked past him, filling the air with diesel fumes and raging male hormones. The odor of beer and cigarettes spilled from the bars, clogging his lungs. He yanked at his necktie, clawed its noose-like knot. Surely Noel could have picked a less seedy rendezvous. No Brussels’ newspaper encouraged loitering in the red-light district after dark. All too often it turned deadly.
Especially on Rue d’Aerschot.
Across the street, two teenagers cloaked in hoodies and sweatpants shuffled outside the rear exit of the North Train Station, another no-go zone for tourists after five.
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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.