What if you started a job assignment and discovered two recent, unexplained deaths and possible drug smuggling at the company? That is precisely what Nikki faces as she investigates an affiliate.

Nikki Garcia’s company sends her to investigate fraud allegations at the Colombian affiliate. During the investigation, she grapples with high stakes, mega-money corruption while still struggling with the ghosts of her young son’s tragic death a few years earlier.

As she conducts her audit, she connects accidental deaths to possible smuggling activities and suspects a much darker plot. After receiving a veiled threat to her life, she hires a former CIA operative to assist her.

She attends a company party thinking she can uncover tightly held secrets that will help her solve the dark plot she suspects. Instead, she meets a medical doctor and feels an immediate attraction to him. As her relationship with him deepens, so does the danger she finds herself in. After she is kidnapped, she wonders if her romantic partner is part of the sinister plot.

Kathryn Lane