THE BOOKS
These novels are part of a series called the Fresco Nights saga, and is about a billionaire archaeologist who is attracted to a museum illustrator who is attracted to his French bodyguard. They form a sizzling archaeology dream team that saves priceless antiquities from the black market, and they ultimately rescue innocent people from terrorists. Book one FRESCO NIGHTS is now published and available at Amazon. Scheduled release date for book two POMPEII AT DUSK is in spring 2019.
Fresco Nights: Romantic Suspense among the Ruins
Book One (Fresco Nights) – Deborah L. Cannon
Billionaire archaeologist Luke Trevanian and his sexy bodyguard Norman Depardieu seduce museum illustrator Lucy Racine into their shadowy world. Is it the end of her routine life? Yes! These are two mysterious men with dark pasts. She is attracted to both. They have the bodies of athletes, the charm of gentlemen and the alluring ways of con artists. Are they also a pair of crooks smuggling priceless artifacts? Lucy refuses to believe it until Luke whisks her off on his mega yacht to Italy’s romantic Amalfi Coast. Their purpose is to dig up Italian frescos. Instead she digs up his past. That past involves a Black Madonna worth millions of dollars on the black market. Art thieves and Interpol are racing to get their hands on it. Will Luke’s name be cleared of the theft? Can Lucy love a man with a shady past, whose ex-wife just happens to be her boss? Or is it the bodyguard she loves? Sometimes the heart doesn’t know what it wants. In the heat of the night and the cold of murder, Lucy must decide what she wants.
Pompeii at Dusk: Romantic Suspense Among the Ruins
Book Two (Fresco Nights) – Deborah L. Cannon
At a fancy museum gala in Naples, Lucy Racine and boyfriend billionaire archaeologist Luke Trevanian get bad news. The guest speaker has been killed in a plane crash on the cliffside of a small Italian village. The crash victim is not only Lucy’s boss but also Luke’s ex-wife Arianna Chase! Luke insists that Arianna is still alive. New information suggests the plane was sabotaged because of a stolen Medusa. Arianna is not dead after all. She is the prisoner of a local smuggler. Now Luke is hell-bent on rescuing his ex. Is he still in love with her? Her suspicious behavior points Lucy to a smuggling racket that trades antiquities for guns. An underground network running from Syria to Pompeii leads straight to Luke’s ex-wife. Confronted with the truth about Arianna’s shadowy activities, Lucy turns to Norman. He is the only person she trusts, and the man she secretly loves. In this second installment of the Fresco Nights saga Lucy’s life is about to change when she uncovers a terrorist plot with roots deep in the Middle East.
Midnight in Palmyra: Romantic Suspense Among the Ruins
Book Three (Fresco Nights) – Deborah L. Cannon
Lucy Racine and her partners in crime, billionaire archaeologist Luke Trevanian and his bodyguard are recruited into a secret organization. What is ISORE? The International Save Our Ruins Effort. What is their mission? To save a woman curator and her two children from terrorists, and to intercept a convoy of artifacts from Syria bound for Europe’s black market. The terrorists are relentless. They kill the woman curator. Now her children’s lives are at stake. Lucy works in close quarters with Luke and Norman to plan the children’s release. Can Lucy hide her desire for the bodyguard? He has sworn to protect her. He is devastated when she is kidnapped. Now Lucy’s skills for survival are tested to the brink. The threat to her life exposes the heart-wrenching rivalry between her two heroes. But true confessions must wait until Lucy escapes the terrorists, and the team moves in to reclaim Palmyra’s historical ruins and the lost children.
Baghdad before Dawn: Romantic Suspense Among the Ruins
Book Four (Fresco Nights) – Deborah L. Cannon
An explosion in the tunnel of the Palmyra museum has collapsed on top of Lucy Racine’s new love Norman Depardieu after he rescues a kidnapped Syrian girl doomed to be a terrorist’s bride. To make matters worse, Lucy’s pregnant sister learns of Lucy’s new job saving antiquities from war zones. Horrified by the news, she arrives in Syria to bring Lucy home. Lucy must avoid her sister at all costs. There is hope that Norman survived the blast. A man meeting Norman’s description is sighted among the militants in the desert. Why doesn’t he return to the ISORE base? Lucy’s love for the brave rescuer has her desperate to find him. But before the team can infiltrate the terrorist stronghold, Lucy is inside their camp. She faces a terrifying reality. Has Norman turned to the enemy side? Is he working for them? He doesn’t recognize her. But one thing she does learn—all is not as it seems. Norman has a private agenda. It has to do with the Winged Bulls of Nineveh, which is in a stolen truck on its way to Baghdad. The greatest test of Lucy’s strength comes in the thrilling fourth installment of the Fresco Nights series.