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Monday, June 22, 2009

Anchors Aweigh (Kathleen Bacus)


Ahoy Mateys! With her grandma wedded and bedded (eeow!) Tressa Jayne Turner is looking forward to the weeklong cruise that follows. Good food. Warm beaches. Romantic sunsets. A swashbuckling ranger-type, Rick Townsend, who shivers her timbers. Nothing can take the wind out of Tressa's sails this time.

Nothing except this Love Boat's the Titanic. For one thing, it's a lo-cal "biggest loser" cruise. For another, Tressa's bad-boy faux fiance and his marriage-minded aunt are stowaways, and Tressa's barely got her sea legs before a dastardly murder plot bobs to the surface. It's a foul wind that's blowin' -- and not from the exercise-obsessed passengers. Add one whale of a Bermuda love triangle, and Tressa knows just how Captain Jack Sparrow feels when the rum is gone.
I love this Calamity Jayne series! I've never laughed so much until I found this author. I've never been embarrassed so much for a character! Sometimes you just want to say "Keep your mouth shut Tressa" and yell " Why would you do that?"
Why would she avoid yummy Rick Townsend so long? Obviously the woman is missing a few screws upstairs!

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