I Never Do Things Easy by Paty Jager

This month at RTG the theme is “Marching to a Different Drummer.” I can tell you about that!

I’ve always been an independent spirit. My mom said when I was a baby, I didn’t like to be held. I’ve always been happy to hang out by myself, which was good considering I had two brothers. One is 18 months older and the other 4 years younger. I spent most of my time either reading, listening to music, painting or working on a craft project, or riding my horse when I wasn’t doing my chores. My younger brother and I did play together and ride horses together when he was older.

I also loved to sit among the ferns under the trees between the river and the ditch not far from the house. Here I would draw in a sketch book or write stories. It was my hiding place of sorts. It’s where I dreamed up all kinds of wonderful scenarios of how my life would be.

I’m sure you’ve seen the ads where you can send in a drawing and they evaluate it? I did that. And they sent me a letter saying how they could see me as an artist or graphic designer and they could help me attain that goal with their curriculum. Mom indulged me and let me purchase the first kit. But when I wanted to go on to college for art, my dad squashed that idea out. He told me I would be going into the medical profession. That was where I’d make money.

He was adamant. I refused to be a nurse and found out it only took two years to be an x-ray technician. Needless to say, I didn’t finish. I didn’t want to be in the medical field but I didn’t know what I wanted at that point. Though my college English professor encouraged my writing.

A couple years were spent at different jobs, trying to find the one that fit. I married, started having kids, and when the two oldest started school and hubby was willing to take #3 with him trucking, I started taking college writing and art classes. The art dropped to the wayside but I was inspired by writing.

I started writing for the local newspapers, while also working on the first great American novel. 😉 Which was really a murder mystery with an amateur detective. By this time, I had read nearly every mystery book our local library had and knew this was what I wanted to write. After a bad experience with an agent, and not able to find a way to learn more about mystery writing, I turned to Romance Writers of America and started writing historical western romance.

History was one of my favorite subjects in school. Especially American history. It made sense that I’d write that when I had a bounty of workshops, conferences and people who were willing to help me learn the craft and the business of writing. My first book was published in 2006 by a small press. That book began the eventual 8 books in the Halsey Brothers Series.

But I still felt I hadn’t achieved what I wanted. When agents at a conference said they wanted historical paranormal, I came up with the Spirit Trilogy. Books historically accurate with Native American spirits. An agent loved the books but couldn’t figure out how to pitch them to the people who had asked for historical paranormal. Luckily, an editor, with the small press that published my westerns, loved the books, and they were published. Now, I not only had historical western romance but I'd added Native American romance.

Still not happy, I wrote a contemporary western romance and then another. I’d just added another genre to my list.

Then I decided to write a series with a female MacGyver/Indiana Jones character. I loved writing Isabella and Tino’s adventures. I called it Action Adventure but the books could also be classified as Romantic Suspense, with the same two main characters. I LOVED writing the Isabella Mumphrey Adventures. The first book in the series won an award and reviews were good. But they weren’t selling.

I went back to historical western romance. But the idea of finally writing a mystery series kept banging at my brain. And I finally came up with a character, where she lived, a paranormal element, and I started writing the Shandra Higheagle Mystery series. I LOVE writing this series and characters. My readers love this series. The sales are doing well.

With all the great things happening with the mystery series, I decided to write another one. This one has a male protagonist, who is also Native American. Which is now becoming a worry. I have a person who connects me with the reservation and people my Shandra character is related to, but I need to make a connection with someone from the reservation where Gabriel Hawke hails from. I made a small connection last spring and plan to make it much stronger this spring.

But like I said in the beginning, I never do anything the easy way! It’s been a long trip, but I am finally in my happy place with what I am doing.

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 43 novels, 8 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.

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Diamonds 'Til Death Do Us Part

by Madelle Morgan

When diamond smuggling leads to murder in the Land of the Midnight Sun, diamonds aren’t geologist Petra Paris’ best friend. Is her life worth a fortune in diamonds?

My romantic thriller Diamond Hunter is set in the subarctic Canadian tundra in July. People’s image of the Arctic is of an icy winter wasteland. However, the short summer is spectacular. The “Barren lands” of central Northwest Territories aren’t that barren. They team with wildlife. There are no trees, but brush and tiny flowers covering the rocky terrain create a tapestry of color.

The diamond mine workers in my novel go fishing in their free time. Since the summer sun never sets, that could be at midnight.

Finding the Diamonds

The subarctic is vast, covering more territory than many European countries. Finding rock containing diamonds can be a geologist’s life work. Many try but very few strike it rich.

When a geologist discovers garnets, she gets excited. That’s because diamonds may be close by. Garnets and diamonds are both formed by heat and pressure deep in the earth, and then pushed in molten rock (kimberlite) through a fissure to the surface.

Mining the Diamonds

Canada's diamond mines. Image source.

Canadian diamond mines are either surface mines, underground, or a combination. Diamond Hunter is set at an open-pit mine.

Massive trucks haul tons of broken rock to a processing plant. In the novel I describe how rough diamonds are separated from crushed rock and stored on site before being shipped out. Then a highly skilled diamond cutter cautiously cuts 57 facets and polishes a diamond to round, light-reflecting brilliance—a process that can take two weeks.

Canada’s diamond mines produce some of the highest quality, environmentally-friendly diamonds in the world. Many engaged couples choose a Canadian diamond over “blood diamonds” aka “conflict diamonds” produced in Africa.

Look for a Canadian diamond that is laser-engraved and comes with a certificate of origin.

Diamond Hunter, the Novel

Colorado geologist Petra Paris must clear her father of fraud charges by collecting fresh rock samples at an open-pit diamond mine in Canada’s far north.

Then someone tries to frame her with stolen uncut diamonds. Petra needs protection.

Local pilot Seth Cooper, an undercover cop with the RCMP Diamond Protection Unit, needs access to the mine complex. They strike a deal to have Seth pose as her boyfriend so he can overnight on site.

In their bedroom under the midnight sun, Petra fights magnetic desire to sample her bodyguard’s rock-hard body. The prospect of intimacy hot enough to heat up the Arctic is a deadly distraction. She needs to focus on her mission. Besides, Seth is commitment-phobic; his job put his ex-wife in danger.

With cops closing in, escape blocked and millions in stolen diamonds at stake, desperate smugglers ramp up to murder. The isolated mine site becomes a death trap. Seth must expose the villains before Petra becomes the next victim.

Available exclusively on Amazon. Free read in Kindle Unlimited.

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A #Romance Across Time #amwriting #timetravel #scifi

Hi, I'm Pippa Jay, author of scifi and supernatural stories to engage your emotions. And my main romance series includes time travel. Why?

Rocking my Anakin cosplay on the Iron Throne!

Well. While I'm a huge Star Wars fan (and it's the universe I tend to focus on for my cosplay creations), I'm also a life long Whovian. My parents were fans. My earliest memory from Doctor Who is The Planet of the Spiders--the final adventure of Jon Pertwee, the Doctor's third incarnation, and the episode I can possibly pin my spider phobia on! His companion Sarah Jane Smith was my first heroine inspiration.

Me aged 18, with the then 7th Doctor Sylvester McCoy

So perhaps it's not surprising that my debut novel and the main series it started are time travel romances/adventures. Even the book I refer to as my 'Star Wars' story--Gethyon, set about twenty years before my time travel series and sharing some of the same characters as well as the same universe--still has a time travel element to it. While not a romance, my hero accidently catapults himself twenty years back in time to meet a girl he falls for. He comes to learn and hate some of the restrictions this kind of travel carries while being thankful for it as well.

Gethyon

But in my main series I have to deal with how and why they time travel, the limits of their abilities, the benefits and consequences. For example, at one point my heroine has to face an ancient nemesis responsible for the death of her sisters, her home world, and even the powers she considers more of a curse than a blessing. But she can't kill her because it would directly impact the very existence of the hero and cause a paradox. She also can't leave the woman free to cause any further harm. What to do?

There are also things they can't go back and change. Their method of time travel involves a certain amount of focus on a place or person to work. So if someone dies, the knowledge of their death stops anyone from going back to any point in their life before their death and possibly preventing it - a psychological block rather than a physical or temporal one. There are also certain worlds that can only be accessed by special portals - gateways.

So it's a little more complicated than jumping in a TARDIS, though probably just as haphazard. The thing I love most about time travel romance is I can have my characters jump anywhere, any time, exploring alien worlds but also the ups and downs and complexities of time travel, and how even love can cross such barriers between those destined to be together.

Keir

Keir's Fall

Want to chat? Find me at my website or blog, but my favourite place to hang out and talk all things geek and scifi romance is as @pippajaygreen on Twitter.

Birthday Month Sales!

My birthday is in June. And because I love to give, I always have a special for readers this month.  This year there are two sales happening starting June 15th!

BIRTHDAY BASH SALE!!

For those of you who like a deal, follow my blog or Facebook page to learn about the Birthday Bash Sale I have going on from June 15th - 30th.  You can purchase the Isabella Mumphrey Adventures three ebook box set for $.99. These are the first three books in the Isabella Mumphrey Action Adventure Romance series. This limited sale is your chance to visit Guatemala, Mexico City, and the Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge in Arizona. The books star anthropologist Isabella Mumphrey and DEA agent Tino Constantine. Their steamy romance ups the stakes as they both take their jobs and bring about justice seriously.

AND FROM MULTIPLE AUTHORS

A New Cover Reveal Sale!

The other sale is a $.99 nine book box set containing the first Isabella book, Secrets of a Mayan Moon.
9 Ways to Fall in Love has 9 romance books by 9 authors from various sub genres.

Mark your calendars and on June 15th visit my blog, website, or Facebook page to find the links to the sales.


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Why Action Adventure? by Paty Jager

That is the question I’ve been asked several times since releasing the first Isabella Mumphrey Adventure. Before discovering Isabella, I wrote historical and contemporary westerns. Some may think it’s a long jump from there to Action Adventure, but every one of my historical westerns has a bit of action and adventure in them. Fast pacing through action is how a writer can keep the reader turning pages.

Making Isabella an Anthropologist specializing in Native American people, I could give nod to my other Native American stories. It also allowed me to keep my branding of western and Native American stories. 

The real push into the genre was complaining about a book dubbed an Action Adventure that fell short for me. It came down to I complained to one person too many and they dared me to come up with an Action Adventure.

I knew I wanted the story to be in another country, specifically one with drug trafficking problems. After all, how else was I to have my naïve, genius anthropologist come across a sexy Latin DEA agent if I didn’t have drug trafficking to bring them together? ;)

When I was forced to set my mind to thinking about an Action Adventure, I became more and more excited as the characters came to me. I did research and came up with Guatemala as the country to set the first story in. Again, I wanted the danger to not just be the drug traffickers but the environment and, in the case of Isabella, her own people.

Anyone who has seen an Indiana Jones’ movie knows the action is almost continuous and the bad guys come from all directions. That was what I tried to do with my story. The difference between my story and Indiana Jones, is he only fools around with a woman once during a movie, my two main characters have a magnetic attraction to one another. They should be polar opposites, and do try to use that excuse to keep apart, but their bodies have other ideas.

I enjoyed learning more about Guatemala and Mexico City for the two books, even though my husband wouldn’t allow me to travel there. I used books, maps, people who traveled there, the internet, YouTube, and local people I contacted to get authentic information.  Merging all the sources helped me feel like I was in the hot humid jungle or the exhaust filled air of Mexico City. Researching the Maya and Aztec was also fun. I didn’t go in depth because that wasn’t necessary for the books, but I did learn a lot more than I put in the books.

The best part of writing the books was finding a bit of the history of the Maya and the Aztec and using those as the catalyst for the villains’ actions.  It is very satisfying when research can be used as a subplot.

The third book will be on American soil, but I assure you there will be plenty of action with human trafficking, contraband, and burial grounds.

Both books in the series were fun to write and I’m looking forward to writing the third book.  I would have to say, I wrote Action Adventure for the adventure of it!

You can purchase Secrets of a Mayan Moon this month in a box set of nine books with nine other authors for $.99 at Kindle.

Or you can purchase it or Secrets of an Aztec Temple at all ebook venues.

Blurb for Secrets of a Mayan Moon:

What happens when a brilliant anthropologist is lured to the jungle to be used as a human sacrifice?

Child prodigy and now Doctor of Anthropology, Isabella Mumphrey, is about to lose her job at the university. In the world of publish or perish, her mentor’s request for her assistance on a dig is just the opportunity she’s been seeking. If she can decipher an ancient stone table—and she can—she’ll keep her department. She heads to Guatemala, but drug trafficking bad guys, artifact thieves, and her infatuation for her handsome guide wreak havoc on her scholarly intentions.

DEA agent Tino Kosta, is out to avenge the deaths of his family. He’s deep undercover as a jaguar tracker and sometimes jungle guide, but the appearance of a beautiful, brainy anthropologist heats his Latin blood taking him on a dangerous detour that could leave them both casualties of the jungle.

Windtree Press,    Kindle,     Nook     Kobo

Blurb for Secrets of an Aztec Temple:

Revenge is not always sweet…

Isabella Mumphrey can’t leave a puzzle alone. This time she attempts to use her anthropology knowledge to uncover who is stealing priceless artifacts from an Aztec Temple in Mexico City. She believes the discovery will prove her worth to the World Intelligence Agency.  

Tino Constantine is also in Mexico City. He has infiltrated a drug lord’s organization to find enough evidence to not only prove the man’s illegal activities, but to bring him down for numerous deaths. Namely those of Tino’s family.

But when the love of his life, Isabella, strolls into his enemy’s home, Tino is challenged with the choice of saving her or fulfilling his revenge.

Windtree Press         Nook             Amazon                  Kobo

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Even Space Girls Can Give

Love that this month's Romancing the Genre posts are about charitable giving. I feel strongly that I need to give back to my community. School and public libraries, food share warehouses, domestic violence shelters, the Wounded Warrior project ... no shortage of worthy causes.

On a smaller level, I can take a meal to new parents, shop for a shut-in, take care of a neighbor's pet. Even recycling and shopping local and green help my world.

Am I really good at giving? Ah, no. Working on that. I tend to spend too much time in my own head and not enough out in the community.

 What does this have to do with romance, and especially sci fi romance?

 This. I recently found a new author, with a whole raft of fun, sexy, high-emotion stories. Woo-hoo! Until I got to heroine X in the series. The chick was gorgeous, hawt, funny and all the men in the story wanted her.

 I settled in for the fun, but I slowly became more and more dissatisfied with my vicarious experience. Throughout her adventure, this heroine never thought about anyone but herself and her own reactions to the hero. Gah! I'll re-read the rest of the series, but don't care to re-enter that chapter of the series.

When I read, I want to empathize with the heroine. I want her to be imperfect, sure - to have problems she must work through to achieve her heart's desire, but I want to like and respect her too. If she's a selfish b^^^^ when her story opens, she better change and grow, or she's off my Kindle for good.

 I just published a new sci fi futuristic, Stark Pleasure; the Space Magnate's Mistress. As the story opens, Logan Stark, space magnate and self-made man has just met an intriguing woman.
 Let's take a peek ...

"Logan Stark waited with keen anticipation for his guest to return to the main cabin of his cruiser. Kiri Te Nawa might not be polished, perfumed and physically enhanced as the women he usually took, but she was beautiful as a wild doe. No, a wild cat, he corrected himself, amused. With those tilted eyes spitting golden fire, and her slender hands clawed to attack the sleazy gambler, she resembled the Tyger females he'd met on the planet Bryght. She must have Tygean blood in her ancestry.
 Her husky voice added to the illusion. Perhaps she'd suffered damage to her larynx at some point, but he found the slight roughness in her voice, the way it cracked under emotion, unexpectedly alluring.
 Her slim, taut body had felt very good in his arms, too. She had a curvy ass below her small waist, and in her snug uniform, her breasts were high and round. Not as large as he usually preferred, but then that was what made women so fascinating—their endless variety, the mystery of discovering what made each one of them unique.
This one had a spirit as wild as the cats she reminded him of, and she shone like a sleek purebred in a pack of alley-bred mongrels.
 He'd found her by accident. With time on his hands after a meeting with space port authorities, he'd been walking. Out of curiosity, he'd ended up in the oldest section of the space port. He passed loading bays for discount cruise lines and smaller private bays that he guessed shrewdly were used by those who preferred to avoid the brightness of the new concourses, their trade better conducted in the shadows.
 There were families and business travelers just like on the new main concourses, but these folk were shabbier. A few toughs cast him avaricious looks, as if wondering whether he could be dragged into a dark alcove and robbed. Stark watched them decide against aggression and move on, realizing he was no easy mark despite his grooming. Wise choice on their parts.
His brother Joran would say he was slumming. Because he'd been here before, many times.
Once this shabby area had seemed palatial to youths looking for a safe place to get in out of the cold rain and scavenge something to eat and drink. And while he'd never mugged innocent travelers as these toughs would, in the darkest times he and Joran had rolled a few druggers in the dark streets outside the port. With bellies so empty they hurt, and Creed to feed as well, it had been one of the choices between survival and death.
 Stark had shaken off the dark memories and was about to turn away when lights caught his eye. The holomarquee of a coffee bar glowed cheerily ahead, contrasting with the garish bar sign across the way and the dark, barred-up space alongside. That valiant little sign drew him.
As he neared the stand, he saw that it was clean and bright, with neat racks of snacks and souvenirs. Then he saw the barista. A slim, vibrant figure in her fitted black, she moved with the grace of a dancer as she scrubbed the small countertop of her stand.
He stopped for a moment, simply appreciating. A bent old man stumped up to her window, and laid one gnarled hand on the counter. He said something that made her smile—a glowing smile, with a flash of white teeth and flirtatious sweep of dark lashes. In one smooth motion she turned, grabbed a disposable cup and filled it from the coffee machine steaming at her side. Then she handed the cup to him, holding on until he had a grip on it. The old man nodded his thanks.
She watched him walk away, then returned to her scrubbing. No credit had changed hands.
Stark stood for a sec and then decided he wanted one of those smiles and that he'd gladly pay the price of a coffee for it."

 So Stark is attracted to Kiri on a physical level, but there's much more to it. Had he not witnessed her act of kindness, he would have walked on, having simply paused to admire a pretty woman. In the midst of his dark memories of the past, she is a shining example that there is good to be had.

Is she perfect? Oh-hh, no. She's impulsive, reckless and still determined to believe in miracles, despite the harsh realities of life in the slums of New Seattle. But she has a big heart. She helps friends and even an alien woman who is unkind to her.  Just the kind of girl I want to read about. Someone with whom I can identify, and like and respect, even as she struggles with her imperfections.

Charity may begin at home, but it can traverse the galaxies.

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Cathryn Cade

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Celebrating Anniversaries by Paty Jager

May is a special month for me. Not only do I celebrate thirty-four years of marriage with my best friend and lover, but I also celebrate the month my first book came out and the start of this blog.

To share my "Anniversary" month with everyone else, I've put my first Isabella Mumphrey book on an "Anniversary Special". It's available for $.99 from May 1st through May 12th. Please spread the word about this special.

Secrets of a Mayan Moon

What happens when a brilliant anthropologist is lured to the jungle to be used as a human sacrifice?

 

Child prodigy and now Doctor of Anthropology, Isabella Mumphrey, is about to lose her job at the university. In the world of publish or perish, her mentor’s request for her assistance on a dig is just the opportunity she’s been seeking. If she can decipher an ancient stone table—and she can—she’ll keep her department. She heads to Guatemala, but drug trafficking bad guys, artifact thieves, and her infatuation for her handsome guide wreak havoc on her scholarly intentions.

DEA agent Tino Kosta, is out to avenge the deaths of his family. He’s deep undercover as a jaguar tracker and sometimes jungle guide, but the appearance of a beautiful, brainy anthropologist heats his Latin blood taking him on a dangerous detour that could leave them both casualties of the jungle.

Excerpt 

She deposited her backpack on the floor at her feet. The horn handle of a twelve inch Guatemalan blade protruded from the side pocket. Tino’s curiosity spiked another notch.

“I have a reservation. Dr. Isabella Mumphrey.”

Tino snapped the paper down and stared even harder at the woman. This was the frumpy, old anthropologist he was to guide? His gaze scanned the length of her one more time while tuning in the conversation.

“Ahh, Dr. Mumphrey, Dr. Martin said you were to get the finest room, no?” The clerk acted like a simpering fool giving the doctor her key and expounding on all the wonders of the hotel.

“Gracias. May I borrow a paper and pencil? I need to make a list for the taxi driver.”

The clerk handed her the items. She stepped to the side of the counter and began writing.

Why would she make a list for a taxi driver? Curious, Tino folded the paper and strolled to a spot beside her. So intent on her list, she didn’t even acknowledge his presence as he leaned, reading the items. Army knife, candle, braided fishing line, hooks, swivels, 24 gauge snare wire…

“You are planning a trip into the jungle, no?”

She started at his voice. Deep green eyes rimmed in gold stared at him from behind wire-rimmed lenses. She blinked, focused on him, and narrowed her eyes.

“Didn’t your mother teach you manners? You don’t look over people’s shoulders to see what they’re doing.” She picked up her list and held it to her damp shirt.

“Mi mamá did teach me manners, no? I am Tino Kosta, your guide to the dig at Ch’ujuña.” He held out his hand waiting for her to shake.

Her gaze traveled from his extended hand up his arm to his face. She squinted her eyes and glared at him.

“You’re not of Mesoamerican descent, so you can’t possibly be my guide. Are you in cahoots with the disgusting little man who stole my property?” She bent toward her backpack, giving him a good view down the front of her blouse.

Si, she didn’t wear a bra. The nipples peaking through her clingy shirt sat atop a palm-sized mound. Now, being a man who liked his hands filled to overflowing when it came to handling a woman—

“¡Carajo!” The pointed end of the large knife that had been tucked in the doctor’s backpack waved inches from his nose. “What is this about?” A woman who ran around without undergarments shouldn’t be offended by a man viewing her body.

Secrets of a Mayan Moon is available at Windtree Press, Kindle, Nook  Kobo . 

Is there anything you celebrate in May?

New Year- New Genre by Paty Jager

With the new year everyone makes resolutions or hopes to change something in their life to enhance their lifestyle or make themselves happier.

The new year finds me working on a mystery book. This has been a dream since I first started writing in the 80’s. In fact, the first two novels I finished were mysteries.  When I didn’t have luck finding a writing group for support and my efforts at trying to find a publisher soured me, I began writing western romance and discovered Romance Writers of America and received the support and encouragement I needed to continue writing.

I enjoyed writing the western romances. The genre came easy to me with the lifestyle I grew up with and live now.  But my heart remained with mysteries and this year I’m writing my first cozy mystery and so far I’m loving the change and the challenge. I like challenges and I believe that’s why I’ve written in so many genres. When one becomes easy, I move on to one that will challenge me.

This past year I wrote two Action Adventure books which are part of a trilogy. This was out of my comfort zone but so much fun! And the reviews that have come in on the first one, has me apprehensive that the second and third book (I’ll write this year) will live up to reader’s expectations. But that is part of the challenge for me. To keep upping my writing.

Here is the blurb for both books. Secrets of a Mayan Moon was published in August and Secrets of an Aztec Temple will be available the end of January.

Secrets of a Mayan Moon blurb:

Child prodigy and now Doctor of Anthropology, Isabella Mumphrey, is about to lose her job at the university. In the world of publish or perish, her mentor’s request for her assistance on a dig is just the opportunity she’s been seeking. If she can decipher an ancient stone table—and she can—she’ll keep her department. She heads to Guatemala, but drug trafficking bad guys, artifact thieves, and her infatuation for her handsome guide wreak havoc on her scholarly intentions.

DEA agent Tino Kosta, is out to avenge the deaths of his family. He’s deep undercover as a jaguar tracker and sometimes jungle guide, but the appearance of a beautiful, brainy anthropologist heats his Latin blood taking him on a dangerous detour that could leave them both casualties of the jungle.

Secrets of a Mayan Moon is available at Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords

Secrets of an Aztec Temple blurb:

Revenge is not always sweet… 

Isabella Mumphrey can’t leave a puzzle alone. This time she attempts to use her anthropology knowledge to uncover who is stealing priceless artifacts from an Aztec Temple in Mexico City. The discovery will certainly prove her worth to the World Intelligence Agency. 

Tino Costantine is in Mexico City, too. He has infiltrated a drug lord’s organization to find enough evidence to not only prove the man’s illegal activities, but to bring him down for numerous deaths. Namely those of Tino’s family.

But when the love of his life, Isabella, strolls into his enemy’s home, Tino’s challenged by the choice of saving her or fulfilling his revenge.

Coming January 2013.

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