Annie Henk Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Gloria Medes is single and thirty-six, and secretly and somewhat hopelessly in love with her oblivious boss. He is both single and solitary, and far too old for her, but she has worked for him for ten oddly companionable years. But when he disappears on his annual trip to Mexico--the one aspect of his life to which she's never been privy--Gloria's impulsive search for him reveals the wreckage of a hidden past. As Gloria travels a twisted road into Carl Perreira's history, she realizes she might not have known him at all. Her investigation discloses as much about her own life as it does about her mysterious boss--and leaves her fighting for her life.

When businessman Carl Perreira disappears during his vacation in Mexico, it’s his loyal assistant Gloria who makes call after call to find out what happened. After all, she’s been secretly in love with him for years. When she’s told that Carl has died in a car accident, it’s Gloria who tries, to no avail, to track down the next of kin or a copy of Carl’s will. And it’s Gloria, heartbroken, who finally decides to journey across the border herself to retrieve his body. But the deeper into the desert she travels, the more shocking the discoveries she makes. About Carl. About herself. And about how elusive and dangerous the truth can be.