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didn’t like the way the conversation had turned. She was still angry about what had happened thirteen months ago—angry with both the FBI and the other detective her mother was referring to.  
    She felt her chest tighten as she thought about the case that had ended her otherwise stellar FBI career. She’d singlehandedly captured one of the most notorious thieves in FBI history and how had the FBI thanked her? By firing her. Sure, she’d had to use some unorthodox methods to catch the guy, but she didn’t think it warranted her getting fired . And in the end the bad guy, Damien Darkstone, had been released from jail on a technicality thanks to the other FBI agent, Ace Mason.  
    “Let’s not talk about that . He wasn’t the right one and I have no desire to take up with anyone else right now.”
    “That’s right Kate,” Vic said. “Don’t settle, especially for a young yahoo FBI detective.”  
    Kate nodded at her father, he’d never trusted Kate’s old partner and, as Kate eventually found out, with good reason.  
    “Oh, well, you’re not getting any younger.” Carlotta looked at Kate out of the corner of her eye. “Benny’s son is single again if you want us to fix you up …”
    “Bangkok Benny?” Kate scrunched her face picturing the rotund man she knew as “Uncle Benny”—short, balding and overweight, she imagined his son looking much the same. “Umm … no thanks. Why do you call him Bangkok Benny anyway?”
    Carlotta and Vic exchanged another look and they both started laughing.  
    “Oh, just something that happened on a job in Bangkok when we were younger.” Carlotta blushed. “It really wouldn’t be appropriate for us to say.”
    “Okay.” Kate let it go … the less she knew about her parents’ previous life the better and judging by the look on her mother’s face this was something she definitely didn’t want to know. “So, back to my job …”
    “Yeah, can you get Gideon to email the photos?” Vic asked. “I can input them into this program and it might help us figure out how to get the ruby out of there.”
    “Sure, I’ll text him your email address.” Kate picked up her phone and tapped out a text to Gideon.  
    A few seconds later, her phone vibrated on the table and Vic’s computer pinged.  
    “Got it!” Vic hunched over the computer typing and working the mouse. Then he sat back staring at the screen and rubbing his chin with his thumb. “It looks like the hotel is about five miles from ocean. We’ll have to either fly you out or find a way to get you to the ocean and pick you up in a boat.”
    “Actually Gideon has part of that covered.” Kate described the ski-cycle to her parents.
    “That sounds interesting … but you can’t just carry that with you,” Carlotta said. “So we’ll need someone on the ground—or in a boat—to bring it to you.”
    Vic glanced over at the dock that extended out into Lemon Bay where several yachts were moored. “A few of the folks here keep their yachts over there, but I’m not sure one is strong enough for the Antarctic environment … or if we could even sail it there in time.”
    Kate’s phone vibrated and she picked it up to read the text. “Looks like I have an answer for that. Max has a small cruise ship that was retrofitted from an old research vessel—it has ice-strength hulls and all the comforts of a cruise ship … and it just happens to be in the Antarctic. We can borrow it for the job.”
    Carlotta clapped her hands together. “That’s perfect. We can combine work with a pleasure cruise and help Kate all at the same time!”
    “Uhh … I’m not sure it will be a pleasure cruise, Mom,” Kate said. “It will probably be dangerous and I doubt it comes staffed.”
    “Pfft … you’ll be the one in the most danger. We’ll just be on the boat providing backup.” Carlotta turned to Vic. “Now, all we need to do is figure out how to get Kate in and out of there … and how she can steal the ruby