Dreamboat

De: Steve Challis

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Dreamboat

A submarine and torpedo tracks are reported.

The Queen Beatrice cruise ship with over four thousand American passengers explodes! People are dying! Captain Erik of the nearby Peter the Great is faced with a fateful decision. Should he ignore the owner’s orders and stop his cruise ship with her thousands of passengers, expecting a torpedo at any minute; or should he leave thousands to drown and race for the distant safety of Sydney Harbour? Warships speed from Sydney and Auckland to the aid of the stricken cruise ship, but it will be hours before they can arrive. The US President orders the carrier battle group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln on a mad dash across the wide Pacific Ocean to succour the thousands of Americans at risk.

Danger, adventure and love in a deteriorating world economy.

Cora del la Cruz, an innocent, beautiful, desirable and highly intelligent Filipina counts herself lucky to be employed as a cleaner on the mighty cruise ship, Peter the Great. The work is boring and repetitive and she has to cater for the whims of the passengers, but she can help pay off her father’s crippling debt. At twenty-two she has never had a serious boyfriend but reads romantic novels and is ready for love if the perfect man comes along.

Magnus Carter is the perfect man; with charisma written large, a herculean body, a face like Adonis, an IQ greater than Einstein’s, and his heart in the right place. At thirty-two this six foot six tall, blond multi-billionaire philanthropist is Sydney’s most eligible bachelor, a real dreamboat. Magnus has no idea that before the end of the cruise someone will try to kill him, and he will be locked into a life and death struggle with an amoral and implacable enemy.

Glen Ward, an evil twin with his heart in the wrong place, is a diminutive nineteen-year-old bundle of energy and suppressed emotion. Glen was conceived in a ferocious thunderstorm and born dangerously premature from his injured mother’s unconscious body in the back of a wrecked car. His father’s parents’ dead bodies were trapped in the front while emergency crews desperately tried to cut them all free without igniting the spreading pools of spilled fuel. Baptised in extremis at a few hours old by the despairing paediatrician and given the Last Rites of the Church half an hour later, Glen has never really accepted what species he belongs to. Other people are also not completely convinced that Glen is human.

This is the love triangle that forms on the cruise around New Zealand. One of the men has to miss out and “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a spoiled brat scorned!” Cora and her eventual husband will always be affected by the confused emotions and revenge attempts of the spoiled brat. Can even death free their family from his influence?