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Scripted for Love and Poison
Paperback
Series: Sol and Luke Mystery Romance, Book 2
Publisher: Patricia Puentes
Published: Aug 26 2025
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A missing critic. A poisoned dinner. A relationship on the brink.
In Hollywood, even vacations come with a body count.
Entertainment journalist Sol Novo and her swoony detective partner Luke Contadino are back-and this time, they're taking on Los Angeles. What was meant to be a sun-soaked escape and a glamorous awards ceremony quickly spirals into chaos: Sol's luggage is lost, she's second-guessing everything with Luke, and her editor has just assigned her to track down a missing film critic who vanished after trashing a high-profile movie.
Luke doesn't like to travel, and he definitely doesn't like how close danger is creeping toward Sol. Especially when a second critic collapses mid-dinner... and a third turns up dead.
Now, Luke is reluctantly on the case-with rent to pay and his business partner Divya Bakshi flying in to help.
As the suspect list grows and Hollywood secrets unravel, Sol and Luke find themselves tangled in a mystery that's as deadly as it is glitzy-all while trying to protect a fragile relationship already strained by distance, doubt, and miscommunication.
Will they catch a killer before Sol becomes the next target?
And will their love survive the most cutthroat scene of all-awards season?
Scripted for Love and Poison is the second book in the witty, addictive Sol and Luke Mystery Romance Series, following Cluelessly Unscripted-but it can be enjoyed as a standalone.
For readers who love witty whodunnits, relationship drama, and a splash of heat.
Tropes and treats inside:
- Grumpy detective × amateur sleuth
- Reverse age gap
- Relationship in crisis
- Hollywood glam meets mystery
- Flirty banter, emotional depth, and a twisty whodunnit
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