Riptide

September 15, 2011
Mr. Ice meets Princess Fire in the second title in Adair's Cutter Cove deep-sea salvage series. Nick Cutter grudgingly agrees to help government agents close down a ring of blood-diamond smugglers by using his boat, the Scorpion, as a mule. But fiery Princess Bria Visconti, of a small island nation off the coast of Italy, comes aboard to beg cool, calm Nick to return her brother the king's investment money in Nick's current salvage expedition. Stranded on the Scorpion with Nick and his mixed crew of new and old hands, Bria narrowly escapes an attempt on her life, and one of Nick's crew members turns up dead. At first suspicious that Bria is mixed up with the diamond smugglers, Nick has second thoughts after their lives are threatened when they visit her island nation. As Bria and Nick bond, the action and their passion heat up, making for a thrilling addition to Adair's series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)