title: The Road to Esmeralda: A Novel
author:  Joy Nicholson 
description: Los Angelinos Nick Sperry and girlfriend Sarah Gustafsson flee the threat of post-9/11 terrorist attacks and their stagnant lives for the Yucatn jungle in Nicholson's second novel, a suspenseful geopolitical psychodrama (after <i>The Tribes of Palos Verdes</i>). Sarah, a statuesque freelance graphic designer, and Nick, an alcoholic failed writer wrestling with memories of his abusive, deceased father and an unwritten antiwar novel, head to Mexico by car, reluctant to fly while terrorist warnings are high. At the tonier resorts, Europeans and Mexican natives who object to the impending war in Iraq accost Nick and Sarah with anti-American taunts, so the pair travel hundreds of miles further south than they intended, to the tiny town of Esmeralda in the heart of the Yucatn's Caribbean side. They check into the Gasthaus Esmeralda, a walled-in Swiss Family Robinsonstyle chalet owned by creepy German expatriates Karl and Cordula Von Tollman. Nicholson builds the psychological tension brick by brick and brings the seedy, pathetic Gasthaus Esmeralda to itchy, smelly, sweaty life as the foursome face off in a downward spiral of suspicion and drug-related intrigue. Though chiaroscuro of dark doings juxtaposed against the white heat of the jungle makes for an atmospheric read, the flat ending falls a bit short of the novel's promise. <i>Agent, Betsy Amster. (June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Bittersweet Revenge – Patricians book 2
  
  
  By R.G Angel
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 R.G. Angel
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the
  author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
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  Cover: Red Leaf Book Design  
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  Dedication:
  
  
  To my lovely Readers, thank you for the kind words and sweet reviews. I’m so
  happy you are enjoying Esmeralda journey as much as I enjoyed writing it.
  
  
  To my betas and in particular Miranda and Amber. Your enthusiasm and love of
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