cover image Can’t Hide from Me

Can’t Hide from Me

Cordelia Kingsbridge. Riptide, $18.99 trade paper (338p) ISBN 978-1-62649-444-2

In this intense contemporary romantic thriller, estranged lovers reunite under adrenaline-charged circumstances. When ATF agent Charles Hunter and his team extract a fellow agent who’s spent two years undercover in a Mexican drug cartel, Charles is stunned to realize the agent is Ángel Medina, the only man he’s truly cared for. Before Ángel can adjust to life away from the cartel, he becomes the victim of a stalker who follows him around the American West and Southwest, seeming to know where he is at all times. Evidence suggests the stalker is the drug lord he slept with while undercover—a man Ángel thought was dead. While Charles tries to keep Ángel safe, they renew their own relationship, a highly charged affair mainly consisting of sizzling sex and intense arguments. Charles is reluctant to come out as bisexual, and the stalker is determined to have Ángel for keeps; it seems as though the two men will never get their happy ending. Kingsbridge crafts a fast-paced story filled with emotional ups and downs, spiced with explicit sex scenes and twined with a convincingly nerve-racking tale of ruthless obsession. The combination of romance, eroticism, and the mystery of Ángel’s stalker is sure to keep readers turning the pages. (Oct.)