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Hunter Galen, a stock and securities broker, suspects his business partner, James Nowak, may be involved in embezzling their clients' money, but he's reluctant to jeopardize their friendship based on suspicion alone. After James turns up dead, Hunter realizes his unwillingness to confront a problem may have cost James his life. Nicki Price, a newly minted PI, intends to solve the stockbroker's murder. . . As they encounter sophisticated shell games,...

Dani Ross has just been given her biggest assignment: protect the wealthy J.T. Denver while finding his potential assassin. For the once ruthless businessman has made many enemies who are not buying Denver's life-changing spiritual side.

In New Orleans, lesbian PI Micky Knight is asked by a woman friend to retrieve compromising photographs which a man is using to blackmail her. The case leads Knight to the discovery of a child pornography operation.

It should have been the perfect case for Micky Knight - a simple missing person trace. But this case turned from simple to complex to dangerous to deadly, leading Micky from a bar in the French Quarter to a plantation on the Mississippi, and into the murky water bayous of her youth. She is finally led back into the past that she has tried so desperately to avoid.