Elizabeth Cameron

Mutations Elizabeth Cameron

Publisher Marketing: Grieving from the untimely death of his fiancee, Ryan Winslow, the young dynamic director of the Fallbrook Museum of the Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, resigns his position and wanders throughout South East Asia eventually boarding a freighter bound for Prince Rupert. Passengers are contemptuous of the food, the crew, the tired and ugly seaports and particularly of each other. Then during a severe storm and in the treacherous waters of the coastal shipping lanes of British Columbia, the freighter collides with an oil tanker with the apparent loss of life of everyone on board. Yet incredulously, Ryan and five other passengers are alive, trapped in an airtight compartment in the bow of the freighter, perilously perched on a subterranean shelf 624 feet below the surface. Ryan soon discovers an A. R. S. - a system used for scrubbing the air installed in this compartment, is providing their life support. But, for how long? Would anyone even know they were still alive? When a submarine picks up a signal from the sunken bow and with suspicions already aroused by the circumstances surrounding the collision, the US Navy scrambles to begin a covert rescue operation. In a valiant attempt to keep their spirits hopeful, Ryan begins to realize that his fellow passengers are far more than just victims. One of them could be dangerously insane, or a cold-blooded killer. The Reverent Gilbert Manchester, a Baptist Missionary being recalled from Kyoto, Japan. A remote, brooding man full of vengeance at man's evel deeds. Eddie Derosa - a shy, dangerous weasel of a man, intent on surviving at any cost. Melanie Kincaid - a young, pretty nurse who seems to reflect a personal concern for the dignity of life - or is it death? Gerald Banning - an aging homosexual from New York, terrified of life and even more terrified of dying. Anna Langford - a private school teacher, looking forward to her retirement until her opes and fears begin to feed in her murderous imagination. On the surface while weather conditions owrsen, mysterious delays lead to the suspicion of sabotage and then to the unthinkable possibility of terrorism. In their tomb at 624 feet as the recirculated air supply dwindles, the fate of the survivors takes a deadly turn. First one passenger dies, then another. And then in a grisly "accident," a third. Ryan must face the horrifying truth that they have been murdered. While the killer's identity remains unknown, he must now defend himself and try and uncover the identity of the murderer. In the last desperate house and minutes remaining before the bow is to be brought to the surface, hairline cracks begin to shift the buoyancy and threaten to send the bow and the survivors to certain death on the ocean floor two miles below. Contributor Bio:  Cameron, Elizabeth Elizabeth wrote and syndicated a newspaper column "Super Simple Decorating" which was featured in over 20 major newspapers across Canada for several years. LADYCOM, OFFICE WORLD & CANADIAN LIVING are among many business and consumer magazines that have featured her articles. She taught at the University of British Columbia in the Continuing Studies program for nine years and college for fourteen years. She was an English tutor for five years before relocating with her husband to California in 2002. She is the author of "Curse of Gold" a non-fiction book based on a mysterious lost gold mine in the Interior of British Columbia. She has also written a how-to book called "Raising your Wardrobe," a guide to raising and producing natural fibers for woven, knitted or crocheted garments. When Elizabeth and her husband retired to California, she was able to pursue her true writing passion - mystery thrillers "Asylum" is her first completed novel. Asylum was soon followed by "Mutations." "Primevil" is her third completed novel, introducing the continuing character Mia Kensington, a field designer for the highly successful and innovative hotel corporation who finds herself enmeshed in murder and intrigue in remote parts of the world. "Leper' is her fourth novel with Mia Kensington. More titles have followed. All titles are available as ebooks, and some are now available as downloadable audio books or cd audio books.