Ice is the second book in the Salisbury series but it also reads as a stand-alone. I’d recommend reading Heat, though because it’s a fantastic book.

This book has everything – romance, suspense, mystery and sexy time. Greg is a man of many faces. He specializes in finding lost treasure and not always within the law. He’s getting tired of the life and vows to give it up after this one final job.

Jon is co-owner of Ageless Word Restorations. His company was hired to repair the damage done by fire to the prestigious restaurant, the Laurels. He’s facing missing his contract deadline if he can’t find someone to replace his uncle who fell and broke his arm.

Enter Greg. One of his many talents, besides treasure hunting, happens to be carpentry and he’s an expert craftsman. When his current treasure hunt takes Greg to Salisbury and the Laurels it seems like a gift from the heavens to Jon and he fears it’s too good to be true.

Both Greg and Jon have trust issues because of their pasts and Jon also has a policy to not get involved with his employees. Greg challenges Jon at nearly every turn and Jon finds it impossible to resist his charm. Greg and Jon’s path to their HEA is fraught with challenges but they do manage to get there. The epilogue was a perfect cap to a great story.

As I read I became totally immersed in the story; I didn’t want to put it down. I loved how there were humorous times to help balance all of the mystery and suspense. The descriptions of the carvings and various settings in the book make me want to visit these places for real and not just in my imagination.

Ms. Scott and Ms. Quinton make a great writing team.

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Greg woke up a good hour before his alarm went off and rolled out of bed to shower and shave, and dress in his usual jeans and T-shirt ready for work. He drank instant coffee and ate the small wrapped cookies that came with the room, then took out all his notes and spread them out in chronological order on the floor, holding down recalcitrant corners with anything he could find.

A mug held down one, a notebook another, a pillow near his knee, and a shoe furthest from him.

Not exactly the best way to have this laid out, but he couldn’t pin everything up on the wall.

Andrey would laugh at him, seeing him on his hands and knees like this. Familiar grief welled inside him. A year and he could still conjure up Andrey’s face. He held the pendant that hung around his neck in a tight grip.

Greg sat back on his haunches to get a better perspective on the papers and to get a grip on the heartache that wouldn’t leave him. Instead he focused on why he was doing this: a mental promise to Andrey to find the Khlebnikov Diamonds. Somehow, in his screwed-up brain, he had rationalized the guilt he felt over Andrey’s death with finding the diamonds. Like it would restore some sort of cosmic balance in his life.

“Stupid,” he muttered to the empty room. “Find the diamonds, give them to Mack, get your cut, give the money to Lena, and fucking retire, already.”

His own island in the Aegean, beaches, warm water, peace.

Find the diamonds.

Salisbury Stories

Heat, Book 1

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