Shock paralyzes Tanya as her husband and his private plane inexplicably explodes into fiery fragments on a Thai runway. Thai Drug-traffickers with American affiliations, manipulate corrupt police to implicate Tanya both in the sale of drugs and the destruction of the plane.

Drew Little, as intelligence officer for the American embassy in Thailand, intervenes in the crash investigation. He finds Tanya guileless, overwhelmed with grief, and yet, quite capable (and without intent) of chiseling through the cynicism that hardens his heart. But, before he can prove her innocent, Tanya disappears.

Drew, the Thai police and the news media believe Tanya drowned. The leader of the cartel believes that his own thug carried out orders to fatally shoot her. In fact, through the help of an undercover Thai officer, Tanya hides with a false name and fake charges as an inmate in the Thai prison in Bangkok. She hopes to live just long enough to testify in court against the man who killed her husband. Standing between Tanya and her goal are the social and mental and physical challenges of prison in a foreign language and culture.

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During a coup, a sheik in an Arab emirate is killed. Lisa Pelegrew and Troy McIntyre, hired by the mother of the sheik’s young queen, rescue this Queen Joy from a palace that is soon to be overrun by insurgents. Because Joy carries in her womb the legitimate heir to the emirate, she is the coup’s highest priority target.

With the help of the U.S. State Department, Lisa gives Joy a new identity in America. Meanwhile all Joy wants is to escape Lisa’s watchful eye in order to ask Jack, an American, and the only man Joy has ever loved, to marry her. Joy hopes to do this secretly because she expects him to refuse, and she wants to prevent Jack’s decision from becoming international news. Unfortunately, would-be assassins surround an oblivious Jack, hoping to kill Joy.

38,000 words.