Gunshots waken Ian Tunbridge, an assistant curator of classical antiquities at the British Museum, on his first day on a dig in California. The only way to save his life is to run for it, but luck is not on his side. At least, not until he meets Lucas Arpini, the brash American photographer who seems to have some sort of clue what’s going on. Together, they’re supposed to be the tools in finding an artifact nobody believes is real -- nobody, that is, except Lucas and the man kidnaps them both.<br><br>Ian doesn’t know what to believe. His colleagues are dead, he’s injured, and he has no choice but to put his faith in a gorgeous stranger. Their escape should lead them straight to the police, but when Lucas shows him pieces of the puzzle they were meant to solve, Ian is too intrigued to walk away. He wants to solve the riddle as badly as Lucas does.<br><br>Unfortunately, they aren’t the only ones ...

Riddle Me Wicked

“He’s a crack shot. Long-range weaponry is his specialty.”


Ian’s blood went cold. He’d been even luckier than he’d imagined, managing to escape the assault with only a sprained ankle and a few scrapes.


“How on earth does an ex-Hungarian soldier end up working for the British government?”


Lucas shook his head. “That’s something else I was never able to figure out. He must know someone, or worked for someone in the time he went missing. He stayed there five years, and then went freelance, until…guess where he ended up?”


At least he understood the man’s excellent English now, if nothing else. “So, you think he somehow discovered the tablets’ existence, stole them, kidnapped Kafele Sinan to get answers about them, then found you to put them into order? You don’t think that’s just a tad farfetched?”


Chapter 34