Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

Two families take a well deserved cruise to Central America together. The adult women are cousins and their husbands and children all get along with each other. Sounds perfect right? Just don't get off the ship. Along with another family they meet on board, the women and children take a zip-line tour in the jungle. What happens next is frightening and their dream vacation quickly turns into their worst nightmare - the kids are lost and in a foreign country. The writing is brisk and matches the fast pace of the unraveling of each family and marriages, emotions and friendship. Your heart goes out to the parents, the kids and the people with a good heart that get mixed up in the middle of it. The scariest part of the story is knowing how easily it could happen and how powerless they all were.