C.J. Toca
It’s 'One big fat lie, covered by a snowjob, obscured by a smokescreen.' Brazilian Journalist Stefania DiMaggio never asks for trouble, but always seems to be on the receiving end of it. She expected a pleasant uneventful visit with her cousin in Leblon but instead is handed the possessions of a dead mysterious priest disavowed by the Vatican, including an encrypted thumb drive. Enlisting the help of an old flame from a previous adventure, Thomas Houghton, a British Duke, they follow clues which find them cheating death at every turn. What did this priest know, and why is someone trying to kill them? False flags and hunches send them scurrying in different directions. Traveling the globe, they stumble upon more than they bargained for, including dead bodies, terror, thwarted love, blackmail, and very bad people. Held captive by foreign agents with their own agenda, Stefania replays events in her mind and peels off the layers of this smelly onion. Grappling with the knowledge that her solution to the mystery may ruin Thomas’ closest and dearest friend, as well as her relationship with Thomas in the process, is she prepared to deep six it? Just when she thinks it’s all tied up neatly in a bow, things fly sideways with a vengeance.
