Amelia Earhart's amazingly well preserved airplane is discovered at the bottom of a lake on an exotic Pacific island. Beautiful aviatrix Tiara Vanu plans to deliver the plane to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. But a stowaway tries to prevent the delivery by killing Tiara and crashing the plane.
This 105,000 word adventure - romance novel begins when Tiara finds Earhart’s Lockheed Electra while swimming nude in a hidden lake in a tropical Pacific island rain forest. The lake possesses preservative properties; items in it don’t decay and people who drink it don’t age. A mysterious billionaire, Ford Newman, of unknown age, offers to retrieve the plane from the lake.
Tiara falls in love with Nae, the handsome airplane recovery project manager. Their passionate romance eventually is dramatically split apart.
After the plane’s recovery, the lake water’s preservative properties stop working. Ford ages rapidly. On his deathbed Ford tells Tiara she is his illegitimate daughter. Ford leaves Tiara his billions, angering his strange son, Jack, who vows revenge. Tiara’s beloved grandmother, Ileah, disappears and a dead woman is found in her home. Ileah is sought by police for the woman’s murder.
After Tiara begins the Electra flight she discovers Jack has stowed away. He tells Tiara he has killed her grandmother and will kill her, making it look like a crash. As her only living blood relative he will inherit the billions. He ties Tiara up and bails out.
Will Tiara be able to untie herself and land the plane?
PERILS OF PAULINE and BARBARELLA meet THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY and EMERALD FOREST in this novel of adventure, romance, and murder. A spirited grandmother, an aloof cat, and Texas hold ‘em poker also play key roles.
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When Lizzie first met Clete at night on an isolated beach he threatened her with a gun. Now Clete's nude, bloody, and very dead body is in Lizzie's bed with his castrated penis wrapped in her tiny bikini bottom and stuffed in his mouth.
Lizzie definitely has problems as Perils In Paradise, a 78,000 word thriller - romance novel begins.
Police have to break off questioning Lizzie when a Miami mob attorney she’s never met intervenes on her behalf. The lawyer won’t tell Lizzie who hired him.
Police find Lizzie's fingerprints on the murder weapon. Clete’s missing clothes are found thirty miles away in a location just visited by Lizzie.
The policeman sent to arrest Lizzie tries to rape her. She shoots him.
Lizzie is forced to seek shelter with a mysterious old man who lives in the woods and carries an Uzi machine gun. She has nobody else to turn to. Her boyfriend and his Florida panther have moved inland. Her husband insists he can prove she is innocent. But is the price he wants for that proof too high?
This novel is set in the same area as the novels of Randy Wayne White. But The Bloody Bed features a female lead character who finds herself deeper and deeper in danger. A killer stalks her as the police attempt to arrest her for two murders involving sexual mutilation.
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