In Search of Paradise : Gingtong Luha (Golden Tears)

In the book In Search of Paradise: Gintong Luha, five gold coins save the lives of Eric "Wake" Palmer and his fiancee, Dr. Kathleen Mercado. This is a story of a couple who fall in love and then, through circumstance, are betrayed by a trusted acquaintance that results in their abduction by pirate-terrorists while on a sailing excursion.

What ensues next is a struggle for survival and finding a means of escape from cruel and lethal captors who would not think twice about cutting their heads off and placing them on a bamboo pole if their ransoms are not paid.

The story is engrossing and will have readers turning pages to learn of the couple's fate and what events will prompt the story to continue into book 2 of the In Search of Paradise series.