The Serpent awakens. The portal opens. An ancient villain shatters Tessa’s perfect world.

Fresh out of grad school and stepping into her chosen career, Tessa Madigan is humbled to inherit her uncle’s home on Balboa Island, but overwhelmed by the messy, expensive restoration. Thankfully, her new friend is good with his hands—in more ways than one.

When she discovers a bag of jewelry in her uncle’s basement, which matches the description of artifacts stolen from a museum during WWII, she knows she should report the find to the authorities.

But a serpent coil bracelet calls to her from the cache, and she can’t resist trying it on.

The instant the golden snake warms to her skin, a veil drops on the present as it slithers up her arm, opening a window to an ancient past: An innocent slave girl on the auction block. A brutally handsome Praetorian guard. And hands drenched in blood.

Tessa rips the bracelet off her arm, vowing to report the find and never put it on again. But she can’t deny a compelling connection to the slave girl. Will Tessa give in to the magical lure of the serpent’s coil?

Tessa’s journey to find The Cloisonné Brooch is the first foray into the past in the spine-tingling Serpent’s Coil Time Travel Romance series. Grab your copy today.

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