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2025: It’s a liar’s paradise
2025: It’s a liar’s paradise
In the dead of night, lying in her father’s jungle lodge, Laelia watches her partner Aid sleeping – her mind racing with everything that’s brought her to this moment.
The heady Caribbean holiday when they first met.
The rum-fueled passion that, day by day, creeps into something darker.
The secrets she discovered in a hidden nook of the lodge, revealing a devastating past.
Above all, she thinks about the impossible decision she must make before dawn.
Does she stay silent and protect their newfound paradise? Or does she confront the lies which run as deep and dark as the lagoon – surfacing a dangerous truth from which there’s no return…
Belize
Much of the story is set in the jungle in Belize. It’s a domestic drama in many ways set in a jungle but this jungle and the scene setting are something else:
“It is beyond beautiful. The forest is heaven on earth. An abundance of flora and fauna. Bromeliads and medicinal plans abound. The orchids shudder before his eyes. He’s seen crocodiles and howler monkeys and turtles. Iguanas perch in trees like leaves; ‘bamboo chicken’, the locals call them. the Caribbean Sea ia always so flat, so calm.”
Destination/location: Belize, Belize City, Caye Caukler Author/guide: Jo Morey Departure Time: 2025
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