Back on the mainland, Loretta didn't just have a new bestseller. She had a new protagonist. Because sometimes, the best adventures aren't the ones you write—they're the ones you barely survive with a cover model by your side.
Deep in the humid, vine-choked jungles of a remote island, the air hung heavy with the scent of damp earth and ancient secrets. For Loretta Sage, a reclusive romance-adventure novelist, this was supposed to be a nightmare of her own making—except she wasn't writing it. She was living it. Back on the mainland, Loretta didn't just have
"I'm here to save you!" Alan shouted, though his heroic pose was immediately ruined when he tripped over a stray root. Deep in the humid, vine-choked jungles of a
What followed was a chaotic, high-stakes race against time. Loretta, with her brilliant mind for ancient linguistics, and Alan, with his surprising (if clumsy) heart of gold, had to outrun Fairfax's private army. Along the way, they navigated crumbling stone temples, dodged booby traps that belonged in a museum, and realized that the "Crown of Fire" wasn't the treasure everyone thought it was. "I'm here to save you