Jungle Jeopardy [Paperback]

Mary Montague Sikes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 5, 2011

When Dana Sinclair realizes Clifton Wilder is missing, she takes off for Costa Rica to search for him. An apparent kidnapping turns into a jungle adventure that leads Dana and Clifton into the wilds of Guatemala where they discover an unexplored Maya cave and find pottery and walls covered with glyphs. Tyler Hunter wants to save Dana’s sister, Rebecca, from prison, and to do so, he needs for them to find her grandfather’s hidden treasure. An archaeologist on sabbatical in the Caribbean, Tyler intrigues Dana with his knowledge of the Maya. Dana has never doubted her sister’s guilt in the murder of their grandfather on the island of Antigua, but now an element of doubt begins to creep in.

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About the Author

An avid reader at an early age, author Mary Montague Sikes soon discovered the excitement of visiting faraway places through books. After graduating from college and marrying her high school hero, she began to travel to some of the destinations she always dreamed of seeing. Over the years, she has visited such exotic tropical places as Curacao, Anguilla, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Jamaica, the Bahamas, St. Martin, St. Barths, St. Croix, Antigua, Barbados, Haiti, Huatulco, Los Cabos, Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel, the Grenadines and St. Vincent. Jungle Jeopardy is Sikes’ fifth novel in her Passenger to Paradise series.

Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Timeless Love (August 5, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1610090241
• ISBN-13: 978-1610090247
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,539,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A native of Virginia, I have always loved to travel, especially to the Caribbean, Hawaii, Europe, Florida Keys, and to Sedona, Arizona where my novel, Eagle Rising is set. Writing about places I know is important to me. On our first trip to Jamaica, I knew I had to write a book set there, so Hearts Across Forever was born. Other exciting destinations turned into book settings were Antigua (Secrets by the Sea), Trinidad (Mistaken Identity) and the Bahamas. We've had some traumatic adventures in Guadaloupe that may one day turn into a book.

Not only do I love to write and take photographs to go with my stories, but I'm also an artist. When we visited the Mayan ruins at Palenque and at Chichen Itza, I was so amazed and awed that I returned home and created a series of huge Mayan ruins acrylic paintings. Several are four by six feet in size and require large walls for exhibitions.

Artists Thomas Thorne and Carl Roseburg at the College of William and Mary were major contributors to my background in painting and sculpture. Then I went full time for two years to Virginia Commonwealth University where I studied under a faculty of gifted artists and earned my MFA in painting in 1980.

I'm teaching art part-time in an elementary school, writing freelance for a newspaper and completing my next novel, Mistaken Identity. My husband is my high school sweetheart who has always been supportive of my work, no matter in what direction I've gone.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Jungle Juju, January 22, 2012

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Elaine Busby - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jungle Jeopardy (Paperback)

Grab your Tommy Bahama gear and go deep - into the jungle and tangled love lives of Dana and Clifton. Montague Sikes obviously knows both types of terrain. Let this author deport you into the mystical Mayan jungles of Guatemala, where this pair of lovers becomes separated by more than the mountainous topography and overgrown vegetation. Beware! This is a jungle fraught with forces which will either pull the pair apart - or bring them into a richer relationship. And if you believe that what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger, a dark and deadly presence watches their every move. Jump into this page turner, and let the juju begin.

5.0 out of 5 stars Gold coins, Maya myths, and jungle intrigue!, November 22, 2011

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allyra - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jungle Jeopardy (Paperback)

In this follow-up to Secrets by the Sea (Passenger to Paradise), Monti Sikes has created a page-turning jungle adventure. Clifton Wilder knows that his girlfriend, Dana Sinclair, wants to find the Brasher Doubloon in her grandfather's memory. Though they were unsuccessful in their search for the gold coin in Secrets by the Sea, he thinks he may have a new, solid lead when Tyler Hunter contacts him and asks for a meeting. When Tyler tells Clifton that the answer lies deep in the Central American jungle, Clifton buys a plane ticket and heads off into deep adventure unknowingly. He also fails to notify Dana that he's going to Costa Rica. When she realizes he's missing, she takes off after him, sending both of them into deadly danger.

While Tyler appears to be rather less-than-trustworthy - after all, he's kidnapped both Dana and Clifton - he may have more noble motives. He is a student of Maya archaeology and myth, and he has a connection to Dana's sister Rebecca, who is in prison for the murder of Dana and Rebecca's grandfather. Dana has wholeheartedly condemned her sister, but now she must consider the possibility that Rebecca was framed for the crime.

Between them, Dana and Tyler have all the information they need finally to find the famed Brasher Doubloon. Now it becomes a race to see if they can find the treasure and escape with it before the local drug lords close in. This latest in the Passenger to Paradise series is a real page-turner filled with nuggets of Maya legend.