Hot Schemes // Troubled Waters — Sherryl Woods

COUP AT MIDNIGHT

Bronzed beauties gyrate to Latin music at a Miami hot spot, Sundays by the Bay. But dashing detective Michael O'Hara is blind to the gorgeous bodies as he anxiously scans the horizon for his favorite uncle's missing boat. The Nina Pilar finally floats into the dock minus Uncle Miguel -- and wired to explode. Molly DeWitt is horrified as Michael catapults into the craft, guns the engine, and speeds away from the gawking crowd.

It's two minutes to midnight, the anniversary of the Cuban revolution, and someone's beginning the day with a bang. Singed by his narrow escape, Michael is burning to discover the truth. Is Uncle Miguel dead? How much does his own family know? Molly mines her contacts in Miami's passionately anti-Castro Cuban community as she and Michael search for clues -- and find themselves point-blank in the cross hairs of terror....