title: Surprise Sailaway
author: Mitchell, Robert
description: For sisters Sarah and Hannah, family life will never be the same. Their parents were killed in a car crash and now their lives revolve around trying to sort through the massive amounts of paperwork left to them in their parents’ Oxford home. But about a month after the funeral, like something out of contemporary adult fiction, they receive a letter detailing the holiday their parents had booked before they died, a long weekend cruise of lazy days and romantic nights to Amsterdam and back to celebrate their anniversary. Tired of sorting papers and hearing condolences, the sisters decide that a weekend of adventure travel is just the thing they need, and eagerly take the long drive to Southampton. At first, it looks as though all the women and men on board with them are pensioners, and so Sarah has no idea of the holiday romance drama about to unfold. But then Paul steps on board, a handsome young man on holiday with his grandmother. He is kind, considerate, and just the kind of person for a holiday romance. Sarah isn’t the only one to have noticed, however, as Adele - one of the cruise line’s employees - has her sights set on romantic nights at sea and has chosen Paul as her dance partner. Among the women and men out to have a good time on a long weekend away, as Sarah and Hannah strive to forget the woes of their family life at home, a blackjack tournament and an unexpected scare will have greater impact than you would think of bringing two young people together. Join the adventure travel on a haze of romance drama and be amazed at the twists and turns of this new, sensuous work of contemporary adult fiction.