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A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
Atria
May 2010
On Sale: May 18, 2010
320 pages ISBN: 1439159122 EAN: 9781439159125 Hardcover
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THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS OF CASANEGRA AND IN THE NIGHT OF THE HEAT TEAM UP FOR A THIRD TIME TO PRESENT FROM CAPE TOWN WITH LOVE, A TENNYSON HARDWICK NOVEL.Actor-turned-detective Tennyson Hardwick has solved two high-profile deaths in Hollywood, but nothing has prepared him for a race to save a childβs life. Tennysonβs past in the sex game cost him his new girlfriend, and he brings her to Cape Town, South Africaβa scenic film destination and playground for the richβto try to win her back. There Tennyson is hired as a bodyguard by superstar Sofia Maitlin when she visits an orphanage to adopt an African child.Months later, Maitlin offers Tennyson one of Hollywoodβs hottest ticketsβa job as a bodyguard at adopted daughter Nandiβs A-list celebrity birthday party. But the party is over before it begins. When Nandiβs birthday goes dreadfully wrong, itβs up to a guilt-ridden Tennyson to save a childβs life and reunite a Hollywood family.But how? He canβt go to the police, the FBI has threatened to arrest him, and Big Brother is monitoring his telephone calls. To find Nandi, Tennyson will have to rely on tips from his fatherβa retired LAPD captainβand a mysterious woman from his past, Marsha, who has already proven she canβt be trusted. His strongest lead is a deadly knife fighter known only as Spider. When his search for the missing child crosses Marshaβs covert investigation into a criminal gang with ties to South Africa, Tennyson knows that finding Nandi might cost him his freedomβor his life.
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