Beach Gang bootlegger, Conner Miles, must clean up a mess and protect the fiery prostitute, Livia. The mess is a body piled like dirty laundry in a puddle of blood in Madam Dianne Starr's brothel garden. Conner's boss gives him a wad of hundreds to clean up the mess. You don't say no to the boss. The madam wants the murderer found. She wants Conner to protect one of her girls, Livia. You don't say no to her either. Maybe Livia's a witness. Maybe she's the murderer. Livia won't say. But she smiles so pretty and promises so much. Then bullets start flying. Someone wants Conner dead. Can Conner find the murder? Can he protect Livia? Can he keep himself alive? Gangsters, Flappers, Jazz, and Murder in the wide open Free State of Galveston, 1925