Gloria Mendez is single and thirty-six, and secretly and
somewhat hopelessly in love with her oblivious boss. He is
both single and solitary, and far too old for her, but she
has worked for him, side by side, for ten oddly
companionable years. But when he disappears on his annual
trip to Mexico-the one aspect of his life to which she's
never been privy-Gloria's sudden and impulsive search for
him reveals the wreckage of a hidden past. Carl Perreira was
not who Gloria thought he was-nor was he anything she could
have imagined.
As Gloria travels this twisted road
into Carl's backstory, she realizes she might not have known
him at all. Her investigation discloses as much about her
own life as it does about her mysterious boss -and leaves
her fighting for her life. Sunstroke is everything a
thriller should be: circuitous, thought provoking, and
brimming with edge-of-the-seat suspense-and the start of a
brilliant career.
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