A New York Times Bestselling Author

The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn’t exactly beautiful‚ but she’d tried to make the most of her looks. And now‚ alone in a seedy beachfront motel‚ she was dead. Paradise‚ Massachusetts‚ police chief Jesse Stone doesn’t know her name‚ but he knows she didn’t deserve to die. Jesse starts digging‚ and finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps.

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