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Authors: Jason Melby
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WITHOUT A TRACE...
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Without a Trace...
A dream vacation turns dangerous when a young wife and daughter disappear...
by
Jason Melby
A gold watch glittered on the headboard's built-in night table while an empty Dom Perignon bottle floated in a bucket of ice water. Silk roses extended from a crystal vase, their pink, symmetric petals in full bloom, basking in the light of immortality.
Awakened by a hand on her pillow, the woman opened her eyes and briefly glimpsed the knife-wielding stranger before a sweeping incision slashing from her trachea to her jugular vein silenced her attempt to scream.
Startled by his wife's thrashing movements, the husband awoke with a six-inch slit below his chin, grasping at his own throat in a desperate attempt to stop the bloody flow.
Victor wrapped the bodies in separate sheets and hauled his victims through the side deck near the helm. There, he tied mooring lines around their ankles and weighted the corpses with anchor chain. One heave, and he watched the bodies sink below the surface before he rinsed his hands at the transom shower and settled in the captain's chair at the helm.
In front of him, rows of rocker switches lined a walnut backdrop filled with radar panels and analog gauges assembled in a logical fashion. Radio and navigational aids complemented the independent throttle levers designed to control the twelve-hundred horsepower diesel engines.
He raised the anchor from its tenure at the bottom of the sea and brought the big motors to life. Then he eased the throttles forward to bring the ten ton vessel on plane en route to the Gulf of Mexico.
Without A Trace...
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Jason Melby
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Jason Melby has lived throughout the continental United States, Hawaii, and most of Europe. A graduate of Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins University, Jason currently resides in Melbourne, Florida. His suspense novels feature dynamic characters overwhelmed by extraordinary circumstances forcing them to confront their greatest fears.
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