When an abducted child died on Janelle Watkins’s watch, she quit the San Francisco Police department. Now she’s a private investigator chasing deadbeat dads and cheating spouses.

Then two distraught women beg for Janelle’s help finding a pair of missing boys. Janelle can’t say no, even when the trail leads to her despised hometown of Greenville. Worse, the new Greenville County Sheriff is Ken Heinz, her former SFPD partner and ex-lover.

Ken grudgingly agrees to help. But when several more children turn up missing, Janelle and Ken find themselves in a race against the clock to save them.

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Marooned in her despised hometown of Greenville, California, private investigator Janelle Watkins wants nothing more than to keep her head down and make enough money to move back to San Francisco. But even in the sleepy town of Greenville, the edgy, smart-mouthed private investigator seems to attract mayhem.

It starts with the apparent suicide of a nineteen-year-old off a highway bridge. Then another young man goes missing, and Janelle begins to suspect that there might be a connection between the incidents. With the help of her former SFPD partner and occasional lover, Sheriff Ken Heinz, Janelle begins to follow the convoluted trail, not realizing that the darkness of her past might finally be catching up.

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