Even if she has to share a cabin with her mother-in-law and new friend, retired cop Luz Vallejo, food writer Carolyn Blue admits it's a terrific Mother's Day present: passage on the Bountiful Feast, a gourmet cruise ship sailing from Lisbon to Barcelona. But the disgruntled crew is putting a real damper on the voyage, and when passengers are drugged and a corpse turns up on board, it's clear to Carolyn that they're sailing into very dangerous waters.