The Empress Card

Xana Bard has settled into a comfortable and contented life with Thorne Ardall, her "thug swain," only to have that life disrupted by the 24/7 bodyguard duties he undertakes in order to protect the notorious former beauty Mona Raglan. Mona, Xana learns, is a shoe manufacturer and compulsively adoptive mother. It seems everyone who knows Mona was once captivated by her compelling sexual charisma, or was touched by her taking on a worldwide brood of orphans. Unfortunately, now that the charisma has faded, so has Mona's immunity from being loathed by the throng of people she has offended as a result of her predatory man-poaching and caustic tongue.

In this fourth book in The Tarot Mysteries series, Xana and Thorne do their best to protect Mona from multiple murder attempts--?attempts that recur with persistence and increasing effectiveness.