AustLit

'If they give in to their desires a whole country will fall.

'Calli Munro, soon-to-be-economics-professor, arrives in Vistaria during La Fiesta de la Luna, a combination of Mardi Gras and Carnival, and is arrested for violently resisting the amorous advances of strangers. She’s sprung from jail by a commanding civilian the Loyalist military refer to only as leopardo rojo. Calli is inexplicably drawn to him.

'When Calli formally meets Nicolás Escobedo, the bastard half-brother of Vistaria’s president, she realizes she is in trouble for it is the mysterious leopardo rojo. Their attraction is powerful and mutual, despite everything they do to deny its existence.

'Vistaria totters on the very brink of revolution and anarchy. It needs only a tiny nudge to tumble the country into the abyss of bloody war. Then the insurrectos learn that the President’s brother is having an affair with a hated Americano…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Facing the heart of the enemy.

'Vistaria is controlled by the insurrectos and chaos reigns.

'Minerva Benning (Minnie) is the only one who believes her beloved Duardo still lives and can’t convince anyone to help her find him. Nicolás Escobedo, the bastard half-brother of Vistaria’s assassinated president, is too busy trying to win back his country. Calli, Minnie’s cousin and Nick’s lover, is busy learning to be the partner of a national leader.

'When Minnie attempts to find Duardo herself she is captured by Zalaya, the head of the insurrecto’s intelligence and security. Zalaya is a cool-headed man of secrets and strong appetites that he indulges fully with Minnie. Despite the eye patch and cane, Zalaya looks like Duardo — especially at night when Zalaya coaxes Minnie to indulge herself with him. Chained to his bed, she sees Zalaya’s control over Serrano, the leader of the insurrectos, crumble. As the danger surrounding both of them grows, Zalaya’s manipulations and Minnie’s quest collide…and the results are fatal.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A game of seduction where a mistake means death.

'Held hostage by the insurrectos for weeks and forgotten by the world, Olivia has watched Daniel bed every women but her, who he can’t see. Daniel lives dangerously and is forced to use her window one night to avoid the guards. Naked and faced with a long-legged woman who doesn’t want him, his curiosity is piqued.

'Under the hostile, suspicious gazes of the guards they begin a game of heated seduction where the stakes are so high, no one, not even their fellow hostages, must suspect there is a connection between them. As Daniel teaches her how to defy the guards the tension between them, both sexual and personal, spirals until it threatens to shatter.

'Olivia learns that Daniel is not quite who she thought he was. Now she is fighting for Daniel’s life, too, for if the insurrectos find out who he really is, then the man she has come to love will be instantly executed….'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'After escaping the presidential palace, Carmen Escobedo is trapped on war-torn Vistaria. She shelters with a rogue resistance unit led by a medical doctor with a mountainous chip on his shoulder, and no time for Carmen’s city-soft sensibilities. Neither does he care that she’s the daughter of the assassinated President of Vistaria.

'Garrett Blackburn is scarred, scruffy and indifferent to anything but the need to pay back the pain and suffering in his life in a very big way. But he pummels, trains and molds Carmen into a good fighter for the sake of the unit…or so he says.

'While the Loyalists try to coax the United States into supporting them, the Insurrectos secretly extract silver from a United States-owned mine, and use it to buy themselves support. Carmen and Garrett learn about the silver and pass the news to the Loyalists and the American corporation which owns the mine. Suddenly, the outcome of the war against the Insurrectos hinges on one simple silver mine, and who controls it.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.