King's Ransom

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Thriller master (Mystery and Suspense Magazine) Janet Evanovich takes you on a global hunt to track down missing masterpieces in this action-packed and steamy follow-up to the instant New York Times bestseller The Recovery Agent.Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she cant seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in troublebig trouble. As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the worlds most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. It seemed like a low-risk, high-reward business move, so he jumped in with both feet. But recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, theres no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime. Gabriela knows what she must do: travel around the world with Rafer to find the missing works of art, keep Harley out of jail, and save both his skin and his bank. Along the way, shell encounter corruption, threats, murder, mysterious dark forces behind a global conspiracy to destroy the worlds wealth, and a nefarious villain who will stop at nothing to bring the world to the brink of ruin.