FINDING THE
CLEANER
WAS JUST THE BEGINNING. Ventura Police Detective Alita Perkins is obsessed with tracking down the corpse 'Movers' her partner's ex-convict girlfriend used to work with. (It's complicated.) A break in the case sends Alita to Long Beach, where she crosses paths with international shipping mogul Jay Cruz. Jay may be hiding a dark past, but he has access to the side of Long Beach that might just be hiding bodies. When he offers to help Alita get into the seediest club in town, she can't help but say yes. Whatever secrets Jay's protecting can't be as bad as what alleged Long Beach Mover Leonardo James is getting away with.... Alita Perkins is trouble. If Jay doesn't watch it, he's going to end up in her handcuffs. Which could fun if she didn't check all the wrong boxes. Direct, aloof, and more than capable of bringing him to justice, Alita's the last woman he needs sniffing around the family business. One whiff of what he does to keep things in the black, and he's sunk. So why is he getting sucked in by her
Veritas et Justitia
charisma?