From Barcelona, with Love

April 25, 2011
Adler's fun fourth romantic thriller featuring TV star and PI Mac Reilly and PR firm owner and gifted cook Sunny Alvarez (after It All Began in Monte Carlo) takes the pair, who are now living together, from California to Barcelona. After a Los Angeles court acquits pop singer Bibi Fortunata of murdering her lover and her lover's mistress, who happened to be Bibi's best friend, Bibi, her career ruined by the scandal, reluctantly sends her precocious nine-year-old daughter, Paloma, to Barcelona, to live with Bibi's super-wealthy and eccentric Spanish family, whose gorgeous matriarch was Mac's first love. Bibi soon afterward follows her daughter to Europe, then disappears. Two years later, Paloma appeals to Mac and Sunny for help in finding her missing mother. With Mac's "bad-boy good looks" whipping up the froth on the surface of this sexy tale, this summer smoothie goes down in one great gulp of easy reading.

May 1, 2011
Still reveling in the glow of their Monte Carlo reunion, Sunny Alvarez and Mac Reilly are planning a romantic getaway for the two-week hiatus of Macs hit TV detective show when a little girl nearly drowns in front of their beach cottage. But this isnt just any little girl. Paloma is the daughter of renowned and notorious singer Bibi Fortunata, on the lam following accusations she murdered her lover and former best friend. Mac and Sunny come to Palomas rescue in more ways than one. When Mac gets a phone call from Palomas step-grandmother, Lorenza de Ravel, hiring him to track Bibi down and prove her innocence so she can be reunited with her daughter, he knows he cant refuse. Although hes doing it for Paloma, he also will be reunited with Lorenza, the love of his life until Sunny came along. As frolicsome as a champagne-stocked private jet, Adlers sexy, scintillating caper is a frothy addition to the Mac Reilly series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)