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A JadeAnne Stone Mexico Adventure
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Secrets and Lies in Zihuatanejo
Author: Ana Manwaring
Series: A JadeAnne Stone Mexico Adventure | Book One
Genre: Thriller | Amateur Sleuth
Page Count: 266
Word Count: 71,572
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022931272
ISBNs
Paperback: 978-1-64456-434-9
Mobi: 978-1-64456-435-6
ePub: 978-1-64456-436-3
Who will you trust when loyalties shift and greed rules?
Between the smell of ripening marijuana and the semi-automatic rifle pointed at her head, JadeAnne Stone questions her decision to drive to Mexico in a VW camper with only Pepper, her German Shepherd, for protection. JadeAnne doesn’t fit anywhere–not with her adoptive, wealthy but dysfunctional, family, not with her new position as managing partner at Waterstreet Investigations, and especially not with her lover, Dex Trouette, now slipping away. Finding a missing banker’s wife is the key to distinguishing herself as an investigator and making her life fit like her favorite jeans. But life never cooperates. Kidnapped off a lonely highway en route to Ixtapa, JadeAnne unwittingly enters a world of high-stakes oil politics, money laundering, and narco-trafficking. She is forced to drive to the Aguirre hacienda where she finds the missing wife. But she’s been set up, and to stay alive she must unravel the Aguirre family’s secrets. Who will she trust as loyalties shift and greed rules? And how will she escape this new underworld?
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JadeAnne’s Margaritas (shaken) - Serves 1
Ingredients
● 2 Lime wedges
● Sea salt medium grind
● Ice cubes
● 1 ½ oz. tequila añejo (Don Julio is good, if spendy)
● ½ oz. Cointreau
● ¼ oz. gold rum
● 1 oz fresh squeezed lime (Key limes are best0
● ½ oz. fresh squeezed orange juice (Cara Cara!)
● Dash of simple syrup or to taste
Instructions
● Run a wedge of lime around the rim of your margarita glass
● Dip the moistened rim into a saucer of salt, shaking off the excess
● Chill the glass
● Half-fill a cocktail shaker with ice
● Add the tequila, Cointreau, rum, lime juce, orange juice and the simple syrup as needed
● Shake well and strain into the chilled glass
● Garnish with the remaining wedge of lime and maybe a little Mexican flag on a toothpick!
¡Buen Provecho!
For a pitcher: determine how many 3 ¾ oz drinks your pitcher holds and multiply your recipe by that many. Instead of using a shaker, put a half tray of ice into the pitcher and stir the ingredients into the ice. Pour immediately into your chilled glasses and garnish.
This recipe came to JadeAnne via a British banker working in Mexico City. Olé and God Save the King!