Norway to Hide
A Passport to Peril Mystery
CHAPTER 1
"Hi, everyone. I'm Jackie Thum; I live in Binghamton, New York, and I'm a published author!"
We were seated at tables in our Helsinki hotel's overflow dining room, rising one at a time to introduce ourselves to the other tour guests who were part of our seventeen-day Midnight Sun Adventure. An open bar had loosened tongues and encouraged some guests to provide every detail of their lives from the day they'd left the womb, but Jackie hadn't wasted time with that. She'd skipped over her annulled marriage to me and subsequent gender reassignment surgery to focus on the most important thing in her life right now: her new career as a romance novelist.
"Here's my baby." She held up a hardback novel with a bubble gum pink jacket, clutching it with fingernails painted the same color. "It's only been out for two weeks, so I don't imagine any of you have bought it yet, but if you'd like to read it, I packed a few extra copies that I'd be happy to hand out."
The room exploded with applause that elevated Jackie to instantaneous celebrity status. Oh, God. I hung my ... read full excerpt from Norway to Hide ebook
