<p><strong>She Confronted Her Demon - and He Wanted Her Back.</strong><br />
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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&rsquo;s Lair. To say she&rsquo;s reluctant to go is an understatement.<br />
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In fact, she&rsquo;s petrified.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
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The mansion she grew up in holds terrifying memories and deeply buried secrets. It&rsquo;s a place where appearances are deceiving, and the price of honesty could be death.&nbsp;<br />
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Complicating matters is her flirtatious friend, Detective Gabe de la Torre, who&rsquo;s tagging along&mdash;without being asked. As Dani is drawn into her family&rsquo;s intrigues, Gabe proves he&rsquo;s much more than a friend, however. He&rsquo;s a sworn protector who may lose his own life in the process of saving hers.<br />
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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&rsquo;s father may have been murdered, the stakes rise dramatically, and Gabe realizes they&rsquo;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.&nbsp;<br />
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<em>The Lair</em>&nbsp;is Book Two of Michaels&rsquo; contemporary series,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Sinner&rsquo;s Grove Suspense.&rdquo;</strong>&nbsp;The series follows the descendants of characters introduced in Michaels&rsquo; historical fiction series,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Golden City.&rdquo;</strong>&nbsp;<br />
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<strong>The Golden City:</strong>&nbsp;<em>The Art of Love, The Depth of Beauty, The Promise, The Price of Compassion,</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Josephine&#39;s Daughter</em>.&nbsp;<br />
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<strong>Sinner&rsquo;s Grove Suspense:</strong>&nbsp;<em>Sinner&rsquo;s Grove, The Lair,</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Jade Hunters</em>.<br />
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All of A.B. Michaels&rsquo; novels are stand-alone reads.<br />
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For more information, please visit abmichaels.com.</p>