Jaguars and Other Game

<p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>1808 Rio de Janeiro. The Portuguese Court flees Napoleon to Brazil. For the first and only time in history a European royal family transfers its capital to an American colony.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>Maria Azevedo and her sister Isabel have spent years transporting gold through the jungle to Rio's port. They can dispatch jaguars and smugglers with a crack of a whip but the Prince Regent's efforts to civilize the city have them looking over their shoulders. More soldiers. New laws. Full stocks.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>Then the sisters' childhood friend is wrongly imprisoned for murder.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>Maria knows the only hope a Brazilian has for justice in the Court's Rio is if someone drops the real murderer on the palace steps. The sisters recruit Victoria Cruz a Portuguese refugee in service to Mad Queen Maria and together they begin hunting a murderer through a city teeming with corruption.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(42 42 42 1)>The women soon discover a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the Portuguese court. To save their friend from execution they'll have to decide what they're willing to risk for justice love and family. </span></p>