Montenegro Series

Victor Montenegro is a respected diplomat, a revered illusionist, and a treasure hunter who is applauded and envied for his uncanny ability to find historical treasures. In the town of Montenegro, California, Victor hires Valentina Santa Cruz, an aspiring anthropologist, to educate his nephew Teo. Victor and Valentina's mutual love of the dead opens up an intimate ethereal realm. They share many passions: sunken treasures, cemeteries, and ancient burials, but can Valentina's passion for Victor wake a heart that has been dormant for decades? In 1727, Suzette Savarit, praying to escape the memory of her parents' brutal murder, agrees to flee to the New World as a "casket girl" under the guidance of the Ursuline nuns. In the New World the spirit of death torments Suzette as she becomes a prominent citizen of New Orleans. Will her illicit romance with a plague survivor open the door to immortality? Suzette bears witness to calamities, warring monsters, and Mother Nature's wrath. A tale that traverses decades in which characters slip into macabre realms as they consort with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and witches. Suzette's battle to triumph over death will trap her in an unsuspecting and devastating curse. Suzette's discovery of love heralds in her worst nightmare: the threat of death cruelly robbing her of true love.

After surviving the New Orleans plague of 1853, Victor Montenegro is on a quest to find the coveted treasure of the sunken ship Ana Luisa. The Ana Luisa treasure hunt transports him and ally Ivan Ortiz into a haunted seabed, where they are confronted by the infamous Pirate Goldendeath. Will the battle in the haunted seabed alter Victor's life? Will the seductive treasure of Ana Luisa imperil his soul? On land, Victor battles the Devil's musician over love. His heart leads him to San Francisco to fight for the affection of an alluring woman while he hunts for the cemetery gold of a legendary robber. As Victor is celebrated as a captivating magician, he finds himself in the epicenter of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. In his quest to help the earthquake and fire survivors, he suffers a devastating loss. Meanwhile, Valentina Santa Cruz fears for Victor's safety as she awaits his return from the Graveyard of the Pacific. As Victor battles with evil to salvage his soul, Valentina breathes life into his heart while she fights to understand hers.

Victor Montenegro's mission seems simple enough – return to the haunted seabed where the sunken Ana Luisa fleet lies and raise a treasure. But triumphing over the ghost pirates and demons holding the fleet hostage and stopping more treasure hunters from dying may actually be the least of his worries. For Victor must also fight the darkness within to reclaim his soul and battle with the Devil's magician, whose quest is to become a greater illusionist than Victor himself and bind Valentina Santa Cruz's heart to him. Victor's greatest fear is not only that he will lose Valentina but her eyes will be opened to the truth about him. In the carousel of magic and dark creatures, it is a perpetual campaign for Victor to sustain the illusion of normalcy.