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If you buy this book, you'll get access to 65 other short stories and two full length novels at no extra cost. The best description is an excerpt: C. Tanner and Rhiana Brown walked down the narrow gangplank to the ‘My Heaven’ and greeted the nervous man. Danny Latimore had unruly and bushy eyebrows. His thick hair had been given a liberal dose of hair oil and combed down the middle and to each side. He wore a tuxedo at ten in the morning, and he had a drink in his hand. He gestured with the hand that held the drink and didn’t notice when some spilled out onto the sleeve of his coat. “I’m so glad you could come. I’m hoping we can work something out. It’s a difficult situation.” He didn’t notice Rhiana. The Browns liked to go to California for vacations. The grandmas and grandpas and cousins came along and made it fun to go on the rides at Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm. An hour before they stepped onto the yacht, Tanner got a phone call from a college acquaintance about an inconvenient situation on his yacht in Santa Monica. “It’s right down here. Tanner.” Danny led them down a narrow set of stairs into the lower level of the ship. A disinterested voice came from behind them. “Are they going to fix it, Danny? We really need to get moving. The Hawthornes are waiting for us in Cabo.” Rhiana’s eyes narrowed when she saw the woman. Her dress was too skimpy in the wrong places. She wore too much eye makeup, even for evening wear, and it was obvious she had nothing on under the dress. Finally, and fatally, she ignored Tanner and Rhiana. Danny made motions with his hands as if he were patting a short pony. “We’re tending to it now, Rita. Just wait in the forward guest room.” “Well, hurry. It’s going to storm, and I don’t like to travel in bad weather. Last night was dreadful.” She turned and walked away. Danny led them into a large bedroom with a circular bed. The bed held the body of an older woman dressed in the clothes of a maid. Danny gestured at the body. “What do we do with her? I mean she can’t stay here.”