Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
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I’m taking part in an author panel with Isabel Cañas, Romina Garber, and Priscilla Oliveras. Many thanks to the Ashland Public Library and Bank Square Books for providing us with this opportunity to talk about our books! I am looking forward to chatting with these authors about how we create characters and plots and also about how we represent our various cultures in our stories, like those in The Family She Never Met. I hope you’ll be able to join us for the panel on September 13th at 7 pm EST. The panel will be done via Zoom and also live-streamed on Facebook. You can sign up for the panel at https://www.ashlandmass.com/Calendar.aspx?EID=9223. You can also buy autographed books from the various authors at https://www.banksquarebooks.com/ashland-public-library-latina-heritage/aff/communications_9679.
This September I’m celebrating the 23rd anniversary of my very first book release. I am also celebrating something else: my daughter’s very first book signing on September 17th at 1 pm at the Barnes and Noble in Brick, NJ. I’m also very excited that we’ll be doing it together. Samantha Ann will be signing Seoul Searching and I will be signing South Beach Love, The Family She Never Met, and Decoy Training. We will be joined by my friends Linda Parisi, Eileen Watkins, and Stacey Wilk. Linda will be signing her award-winning vampire books, Eileen will be signing her feline-themed cozy mysteries, and Stacey will be signing her contemporary romances and women’s fiction. So exciting. I hope you’ll be able to join us!
It’s going to be such an amazing end to the year for me with the release of back-to-back Harlequin Intrigue novels in the South Beach Security series! The first book in the series is Lost in Little Havana and it’s an exciting action-packed story about a detective who is trying to find out who murdered his partner and stop a human trafficking ring at the same time. This Teaser Tuesday I’m sharing a teaser and short excerpt from Lost in Little Havana.
Each brush with death…
…makes their shared desire harder to ignore
Detective Roni Lopez has been keeping a secret from Detective Trey Gonzalez her whole life. When his partner is gunned down in a Miami Beach nightclub, she has a new secret to keep. Trey can’t know that she’s working for Internal Affairs—just like he can’t know that she’s always loved him. But when their lives are on the line, she has to make some tough choices about what really matters…
Music pounded out of speakers while a DJ positioned on a stage above the crowded dance floor, like a high priest at the altar, orchestrated the electronic beats. Tourists dressed in bright tropical hues danced and gyrated beside top model wannabes and disinterested locals. Overhead lights and strobes bathed them in a wash of neon color.
The South Beach nightclub was lit but danger lurked beneath all that glitter and glamour.
Miami Beach Detective Trey Gonzalez stood at one side of the packed club, searching for the confidential informant who had called to say he had info that might be of interest. His partner, Doug Adams, had gone off on his own earlier to meet his own CI and hadn’t returned. As Trey scanned the area, he caught sight of his sister Mia and cousin Carolina jockeying for spots at the bar. The two women had been born on the same day and were almost inseparable, which was why everyone teasingly called them the Twins. As they were two of Miami’s top influencers, he wasn’t surprised to see them there since they regularly covered the club scene for their popular lifestyle blog. But he was worried that they might get caught up in the nasty things going on at the club.
His phone vibrated in his pocket, dragging his attention from the Twins. When he had time, he’d have to warn his sister and cousin away from this location. He pulled out his phone. His CI was calling.
“¿Donde estas, Eddie?” he asked, wondering where the man was since Trey hadn’t spotted him in the club.
“Mano, I can’t show my face tonight,” Eddie said in hushed tones, making it hard for Trey to hear over the almost deafening music.
To combat the noise, Trey hurried outside into a Miami night that was so steamy it was like he had walked into a sauna. “¿Que pasa?”
“There’s too much going down at the club, Trey,” his CI said nervously and slightly out of breath, as if he was running from something. Was it personal Eddie issues or something bigger that might be dangerous to the Twins and other innocent bystanders?
“Caray, Eddie. What’s happening?” Trey said, worried. Plus, his partner would be wondering where he had gone since they might be missing some of the drug dealing that he and his partner were undercover to prevent.
In a rapid-fire burst of words, Eddie spilled his sketchy story. “Looking for me there. I know about the women in a shipping container on Terminal Island. Sending them overseas to a human trafficking ring. Soon.”
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I am so so excited about my upcoming romantic suspense series South Beach Security for Harlequin Intrigue! The first book in the series — Lost in Little Havana — releases in late November (basically December) while the second book in the series — Brickell Avenue Ambush — is out in late December (and yes, basically January). I can’t wait for you to meet the Gonzalez family that runs South Beach Security and get wrapped up in these action-packed stories! Today I’m teasing you with the cover reveal for Brickell Avenue Ambush. I just love the cover and can’t wait for you to see it soon! You can find out more about the SBS series and the SBS K-9 series will be out in 2023 at https://www.caridad.com/books/suspense/south-beach-security/.
It’s hard to believe that Labor Day Weekend is already here! It’s the unofficial end of summer here on the Jersey Shore and come Tuesday it’s the start of what we call Local Summer. The beaches are way emptier but September and October are two of the most beautiful months on the beach. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I’m going to spend some time with friends and family and with a good book!
It’s going to be a nail-biter end to the season with the Mets and Braves battling each other for first place in the division. We’re hoping we’ll be able to go to some postseason games and watch the Mets go all the way. Years ago my daughter and I were able to go a division playoff game at Shea Stadium. We actually had to go twice because the first night we went the game got rained out after we got there, hence why we’re wearing ponchos. We had to go back to the stadium two nights later only to watch our Mets lose to the Cardinals. A sad night, but very very exciting.
