Afraid of the Dark — Mary Linn Roby

Romance Becomes Terror

Hoping to find the romance so lacking in her staid, monotonous life, Laura Cassell had saved for years for the cruise to Rio de Janeiro. Then on the eve of sailing, she came to her Boston apartment and found her brother Justin brutally beaten, lying on the living room floor. His assailants, he said, had been waiting there to kill her. They were planning to force him to pay his gambling debt with the money he would receive from her life insurance. If only she could get to the ship and out of the country, she would be safe…

But she was wrong, deadly wrong.