Classic Cruise Line’s flagship, Matriarch of the Seas, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a rare two-week cruise of the Western Caribbean. Perfect weather is forecast, but passengers must board during a downpour. More departure-day omens follow, and ship captain Lars Admunson prays that all who depart will return safely to port. A nice, but futile gesture.
Jim Smith and his friends look forward to a romantic, fun-filled vacation they’ve anticipated for two years. What better way to banish mid-winter blues than by enjoying tropical fun and sun on the largest and safest cruise liner in the Caribbean?
Unknown to Jim, his mystical RV camping club friend, Maggie Saunders, and her sister have joined the voyage. Maggie promptly uses the anonymity for her amusement. But when peril infiltrates the shipboard games, even her intuition and voodoo dolls might not be able to keep it at bay.
Meanwhile, Jim’s Smith’s ex, Marsha Montoya, and her cousin Moon Ellsworth are on a dream journey of their own as stars of the blockbuster movie Tales of the Kingdom. Their joy is tempered when they encounter their own forewarnings of danger. One might be brash young actor and infamous ladies’ man, Jason West.
But surely omens can’t be that bad, can they?
Do cruise ships carry lifeboats?
Though the focus of Cruising for a Bruising serial series is love and romance, Shakespeare got it right—The course of true love never did run smooth. But Shakespeare in his wildest midsummers night’s dreams couldn’t have come up with such nefarious worst-case scenarios. Expect mayhem, murder, and malevolent monsters deviously devising dastardly deeds. Mixed with mischief, magical realism (simply coincidences? something more?) and whimsy.
Wait, Shakespeare was a master of all that. Oh well, the sincerest form of flattery….
But, best of all, the serials take readers on a two-week cruise to the Western Caribbean. Imagine pool-deck games, hot tub nights, tropical beaches, ancient ruins and, perhaps, a mermaid or two.
Jim Smith and his friends look forward to a romantic, fun-filled vacation they’ve anticipated for two years. What better way to banish mid-winter blues than by enjoying tropical fun and sun on the largest and safest cruise liner in the Caribbean?
Unknown to Jim, his mystical RV camping club friend, Maggie Saunders, and her sister have joined the voyage. Maggie promptly uses the anonymity for her amusement. But when peril infiltrates the shipboard games, even her intuition and voodoo dolls might not be able to keep it at bay.
Meanwhile, Jim’s Smith’s ex, Marsha Montoya, and her cousin Moon Ellsworth are on a dream journey of their own as stars of the blockbuster movie Tales of the Kingdom. Their joy is tempered when they encounter their own forewarnings of danger. One might be brash young actor and infamous ladies’ man, Jason West.
But surely omens can’t be that bad, can they?
Do cruise ships carry lifeboats?
Though the focus of Cruising for a Bruising serial series is love and romance, Shakespeare got it right—The course of true love never did run smooth. But Shakespeare in his wildest midsummers night’s dreams couldn’t have come up with such nefarious worst-case scenarios. Expect mayhem, murder, and malevolent monsters deviously devising dastardly deeds. Mixed with mischief, magical realism (simply coincidences? something more?) and whimsy.
Wait, Shakespeare was a master of all that. Oh well, the sincerest form of flattery….
But, best of all, the serials take readers on a two-week cruise to the Western Caribbean. Imagine pool-deck games, hot tub nights, tropical beaches, ancient ruins and, perhaps, a mermaid or two.
