The Ruby
Good morning Torquere!
I'm a new author to the publisher and I'm very happy to be here. Today I want to talk about my story The Ruby. More specifically, I want to talk about the island where the events take place: Isla Luz.
Isla Luz is an island I made up, somewhere in the South Pacific between Hawaii and Australia. It's hot, and tropical, and beautiful. Like this:
It's a tiny place. The local population is a mix of native peoples and the Spanish, who landed there to colonize a couple hundred years ago (which is why many of the names of things are in Spanish. The local language is a mix of a Polynesian dialect and Spanish.) There's a volcano on the island, El Diablo, that dominates the entire small place, rising from the jungle not unlike Dimond Head on Oahu*:
The mayor of the one tiny town, and owner/operator of the "resort" where Daniel takes his vacation is named Adrian. He's bad tempered, and a little zenophobic, but you can grow to love him given enough time and the right deference to his island (but that's another story ;). He's a living descendant of a famous female pirate who landed her crew on Isla Luz. That same pirate left a fortune in gems stashed in a cave right in the heart of El Diablo. Hawk's job is to find that stash. His life sort of depends on it.
Isla Luz features mosquitoes as big as your fist, temperatures and humidity that will leave anyone exhausted, suspicious islanders, and a run down resort with shared bathrooms. Daniel thought it would be a tropical paradise hideaway, but instead it turns out to be a jungle full of discomfort. Add in a slightly crazed, but very sexy mystery man, and his vacation has truly gone to hell.
Check out Daniel and Hawk, and the lovely Isla Luz, in my new story The Ruby.
Just watch out for the mosquitoes!
Amelia June
*I climbed Dimond Head once when I was a teenager. Good times. Very steep.
I'm a new author to the publisher and I'm very happy to be here. Today I want to talk about my story The Ruby. More specifically, I want to talk about the island where the events take place: Isla Luz.
Isla Luz is an island I made up, somewhere in the South Pacific between Hawaii and Australia. It's hot, and tropical, and beautiful. Like this:
It's a tiny place. The local population is a mix of native peoples and the Spanish, who landed there to colonize a couple hundred years ago (which is why many of the names of things are in Spanish. The local language is a mix of a Polynesian dialect and Spanish.) There's a volcano on the island, El Diablo, that dominates the entire small place, rising from the jungle not unlike Dimond Head on Oahu*:
The mayor of the one tiny town, and owner/operator of the "resort" where Daniel takes his vacation is named Adrian. He's bad tempered, and a little zenophobic, but you can grow to love him given enough time and the right deference to his island (but that's another story ;). He's a living descendant of a famous female pirate who landed her crew on Isla Luz. That same pirate left a fortune in gems stashed in a cave right in the heart of El Diablo. Hawk's job is to find that stash. His life sort of depends on it.
Isla Luz features mosquitoes as big as your fist, temperatures and humidity that will leave anyone exhausted, suspicious islanders, and a run down resort with shared bathrooms. Daniel thought it would be a tropical paradise hideaway, but instead it turns out to be a jungle full of discomfort. Add in a slightly crazed, but very sexy mystery man, and his vacation has truly gone to hell.
Check out Daniel and Hawk, and the lovely Isla Luz, in my new story The Ruby.
Just watch out for the mosquitoes!
Amelia June
*I climbed Dimond Head once when I was a teenager. Good times. Very steep.