The Lair

She Confronted Her Demon - and He Wanted Her Back.



After her playboy father dies in a racing boat mishap, innkeeper Daniela Dunn must travel from Northern California back to Verona, Italy and her childhood home, an estate called the Panther’s Lair. To say she’s reluctant to go is an understatement. In fact, she’s petrified. 



The mansion she grew up in holds terrifying memories and deeply buried secrets. It’s a place where appearances are deceiving and the price of honesty could be death. 



Complicating matters is the fact that her flirtatious friend, Detective Gabe de la Torre, is tagging along—without being asked. “I don’t need a babysitter,” she complains, and is even more upset when she learns Gabe has his own secret reason for following her to Italy. As Dani is drawn into her family’s intrigues, Gabe proves he’s much more than a friend, however. He’s a sworn protector who may lose his own life in the process of saving hers. 



Gabe de la Torre needs to settle old family debts before starting fresh with the woman he feels could be The One. But when a mystery woman reveals that Dani’s father may have been murdered, the stakes rise dramatically and Gabe realizes they’re now players in a treacherous game. Keeping Dani safe becomes his top priority, even as Dani strives to figure out whom she can trust: her relatives, Gabe, or even herself. 



The Lair, a stand-alone novel, follows on the heels of Sinner’s Grove, the foundational novel for A.B. Michaels’ contemporary romantic suspense series of the same name. Sinner’s Grove centers around the family, friends and associates of a world-famous artists’ retreat on the coast of northern California. The Jade Hunters, the next in the Sinner's Grove series, will be available in 2019. 



The Art of Love, the award-winning first novel in the historical fiction series "The Golden City," recounts the founding of the retreat by Klondike King August Wolff and artist Amelia Starling at the turn of the twentieth century. Other titles in the Golden City historical fiction series include The Depth of Beauty, The Promise, The Price of Compassion and Josephine's Daughter (to be published in 2019). All novels in the series are stand-alone reads. 



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