The perfect human sacrifice?
Fernanda certainly didn't like to think of herself that way. But that's what the drugged shaman gleefully pronounced as they sat at the campfire, high in the Andes. Fernanda wondered if she had made a mistake in convincing her husband to hike with her the Inca Trail in search of the missing boy. The boy they feared had been taken by an ancient tribe to be sacrificed to the mountain gods. She forced herself to think of the boy, and ignore her growing unease.
The First Kiss Mysteries:
BATHING WITH THE DEAD (#1)
HER HEART IN RUINS (#2)
ALL THAT WE TOUCH (#3)
Ray Else's fiction has been broadcast by the BBC World Service, included in a literary review published by the Sorbonne in Paris, published by Galley Beggar Press and shortlisted for a Shakespeare & Company Prize.