Do Not Become Alarmed

When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem endless. The children—two brothers and two sisters—love the independence they have at the Kids Club. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor misfortunes leads the families farther and farther from the ship. One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone. What follows is a riveting, revealing story told from the perspectives of the adults as they try to recover their children while turning on one another and blaming themselves.