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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.