Arthur Ellis Award finalist Rio Youers combines vengeance and deceit,
love and bullets, secrets, and twists in this high-octane action
thriller with a vibrant emotional core.
Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the
medication his sister Molly needs.
Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps
into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops
to arrive, the phone rings. It's Blair Mayo--the woman he bumped
into--and she's got the missing billfold.
Brody will get it back, but only if he does her a favor: steal her late
mother's diamonds from her wicked stepmom. But when he gets to the
house, he finds a gruesome crime scene--and a security camera. Brody
knows he's been framed.
Back home, the terrified young man gets another call. The police won't
get the incriminating video footage, Blair says. Instead, her daddy, the
notorious mobster Jimmy Latzo, will exact his own kind of revenge.
Brody and Molly realize that they've become pawns in a mysterious
game--one that involves a notorious enforcer named Lola Bear who
brutally crossed paths with Jimmy Latzo twenty-six years before. . . a
ghost from the past who is intimately connected to their lives.
