Murder & Serenity

<p>Delve into the uncharted course of being a mature older woman on the open sea with Deana a sixty-year-old recently-retired adventurer whose new role as a paid travel companion embroils her in an art theft and murder aboard a cruise ship. </p><p>Like many women entering the second half of their life Deana's journey has been marked with personal pain-sexual abuse workplace harassment and marital infidelity. Now newly retired newly single and wholly ready to start living her life she's finally able to pursue a lifelong passion: traveling the world. </p><p>However no degree of client screening could prepare Deana for the deadly challenges she encounters on a cruise to Curaçao. Soon someone on board turns up dead amid efforts to reclaim a valuable once-thought-missing Vincent Van Gogh painting. </p><p>Now Deana wades through dangerous territory that brings into focus the rite of passage for the mature single woman as she tries to find the truth and right a wrong. Deana embarks on the cruise for a new start but ends up on a quest to find meaning and worth as she enters the later years of her life. </p><p><em>Murder & Serenity</em> shows that women of any age have a capacity for empowerment. Female Boomer generation readers will revel in references to '70s and '80s pop culture-as well as horror stories about online dating in your fifties and sixties. Joan's witty and wry sense of humor complements this otherwise intense story of family loyalty deceit and murder.</p>