Cartagena at Blue Hour
In Cartagena's walled city, where colonial gold meets Caribbean heat, a stolen painting and a man with two identities are about to unravel everything Luciana Reyes thought she controlled. She is the curator. The colonial-era masterpiece was under her protection, in a locked conservation room, secured by a system she trusted. Now it is gone — hours before the museum's reopening gala — and the security specialist whose cameras missed everything is standing in her archive telling her the thief came from inside her own staff. Dante Shaw is precise, well-read, and infuriatingly calm for a man whose system just failed. He is also not entirely who he says he is. Their investigation pulls them through humid rooftops, a secret society masquerade, and a forgery trail buried in four-hundred-year-old provenance records. The closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to each other — until proximity becomes desire and desire becomes something neither of them planned to risk. But someone in the museum knew exactly what they were doing. And when Luciana finds the painting alone at three in the morning, she discovers that the most dangerous thing in Cartagena isn't the forger. It's the man who had every reason to tell her the truth and chose strategy instead. Cartagena at Blue Hour is a high-heat standalone romantic suspense featuring a brilliant, agency-driven heroine, a morally complicated hero with a real secret, explicit consensual romance, an art-theft mystery with genuine stakes, and an earned happily-ever-after. For adult readers who want their danger sunlit and their love hard-won. Free sample available.