o A steamy Caribbean island

o A missing female photographer

o A daughter's relentless search and her entanglement in the island's twisted subculture

Don't expect an umbrella in your drink when you escape to the Virgin Islands in this heart-pounding suspense novel as young Olivia Benning desperately searches for her photographer mother who has gone missing during a covert assignment. Racing against time, Olivia gets caught up in the same criminal element that may have murdered her mother and finds herself on the run for her own life. Can she evade them long enough to find her mother alive? Or will she be their next victim?

See why critics and readers alike are raving about the suspense novels of multi national award-winning storyteller Penny Goetjen.

"Not even the sultry Caribbean sun can burn off the dark clouds that seem to follow Olivia Benning. Penny Goetjen uses the idyllic setting and island culture so effectively, the reader is tempted to savor ocean views from The Empty Chair, but don't pause too long-danger is never far away." -Kathryn Orzech, Author of Premonition of Terror, a paranormal thriller, and Asylum, a dark suspense saga

Awarded SILVER in the prestigious Mom's Choice Awards