Cloud 9 Affair by Katherine E. Kreuter

Christine Grandy---rebellious, wealthy, twenty-something---has disappeared into the depths of India, along with her hippie lover, Monica Ward. Desperate to bring her home, Christine's millionaire father hire expert finder-of-missing-persons Paige Taylor

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Excerpted from Cloud 9 Affair by Katherine E. Kreuter. Copyright © 1997. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved

Monica was stting on a low wooden stool near the road-side, sipping tea that was cloudly with milk and sugar, willing it to turn into a chocolate malt.
'Welcome to Nowhere,' she told no one in particular.

No one in particular cared. Except for two men across the road,slouched in the back seat of a taxi. Both had their binoculars trained on her.

'This time it's really over, Chris,' muttered Monica, loud enough now to be overheard by the tea vendor a few yards away. He paid no attention, but the two men in the taxi nodded to each other and readjusted their binoculars..........