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Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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THE KING'S RANSOM

The King's Ransom, November 2025
The Recovery Agent #2
by Janet Evanovich

Atria Books
Featuring: Gabriela Rose
320 pages
ISBN: 166802747X
EAN: 9781668027479
Kindle: B0CL5G23ZH
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THE KING'S RANSOM
Janet Evanovich

Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel
Posted November 7, 2025

Thriller

Gabriela, a recovery agent,Β comes home from a mission to discover her ex-husband and his cousin in her apartment. She’s not thrilled to see them. Harley, the cousin, is in trouble. He’s been gifted the role of president at a bank – and forced to insure high-profile pieces of art. Most of the art has been stolen, leaving Harley responsible.

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Top among the works stolen are the Rosetta Stone and a golden mummy coffin. GabrielaΒ heads off to London. Unfortunately, Rafe and Harley accompany her. They bypass the authorities and start talking with some of Gabriela’s contacts. She has a source at the museum who knows all the good gossip.

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As she searches for the Rosetta Stone, GabrielaΒ learns that she and her team are being followed. After a few close escapes, she realizes they’re not the only team searching for the missing artwork. The Golden Coffin is a hot commodity that people will kill to possess. Can GabrielaΒ locate the missing items and save her ex-husband’s cousin?

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THE KING'S RANSOM is the second book in the GabrielaΒ Rose series. As always in a Janet Evanovich, there’s action, danger, humor, and sexual tension. Clear away your afternoon when you sit down with this one, you won’t want to stop. This newest installment will leave readers anxiously awaiting the next book in the series.

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SUMMARY

“Thriller master” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine) Janet Evanovich takes you on a global hunt to track down missing masterpieces in this action-packed and steamy sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Recovery Agent.

Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble…big trouble.

As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. It seemed like a low-risk, high-reward business move, so he jumped in with both feet. But recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime.

Gabriela knows what she must do: travel around the world with Rafer to find the missing works of art, keep Harley out of jail, and save both his skin and his bank. Along the way, she’ll encounter corruption, threats, murder, mysterious dark forces behind a global conspiracy to destroy the world’s wealth, and a nefarious villain who will stop at nothing to bring the world to the brink of ruin.

Audiobook Narrator- Gabriela Rose

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BOOK SERIES

Recovery Agent

The King's Ransom
THE KING'S RANSOM
#2.0 β€’ November 2025
The King's Ransom
THE KING'S RANSOM
#2.0 β€’ July 2026