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

The unexpected side effect was the faint—so faint it might have just been his overactive imagination, but God he was hoping not—ring of a phone from farther down the hallway. He dropped his arm to his side and strained to hear, forcing his body to utter stillness in hopes of making it out.


The chime from the elevator going up didn’t help.


He couldn’t tell. He just couldn’t tell. It was entirely possible the ringing had been Ian’s phone, but there was an equal possibility he was hearing exactly what he wanted to hear, which was the direction he needed to save the man who’d come to mean so much to him.


Murmuring voices behind him told him to get his ass out of the hallway before he got caught in an unauthorized area and was thrown out of the building entirely.


Chapter 59