National bestselling author Kiki Swinson amps up the action and suspense with unpredictable characters, breakneck twists, and a gut-punch portrait of Southern survivingand dying. Now the odds are straight-up killer when a private eye gets in way over her head . . . Too much to prove . . . A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khloe Mercer figures if shes going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her nameand really show she can handle Norfolk, Virginia's toughest streets . . . Too much to hide . . . When a narcotics detectives widow needs someone to investigate her disgraced husbands so-called suicide, Khloe jumps at the lucrative feeand the clues that the Norfolk Police Department is rotten from top to bottom. And with formidable backup from her ex-felon uncle, she turns the city upside-down to uncover the truth . . . Too late to run . . . But Khloe's cage-rattling tactics and high-wire strategies threaten both the cops and the citys brutal underworld alike. Now, with her life in the crosshairs and no one she can trust, shell find that building a reputation comes with a price she may not survive to pay . . .
