A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller.

“Lisa Gray explodes onto the literary stage with this taut, edge-of-the-seat thriller, and her headstrong protagonist, Jessica Shaw, similar to Lee Kid’s Jack Reacher, delivers a significant punch.” —Robert Dugoni, NY Times bestselling writer

Detective agency Jessica Shaw is used to getting anonymous tips. But after finding a photo of the three-year-old kidnapped from LA twenty-five years ago, Jessica is normally about Thin Air stunned to recognize the little gal as herself.

Looking forward to answers, Jessica heads to LA’s dark underbelly. When she learns that her biological mother was wiped out the night she was abducted, Jessica’s decided to solve an instance the police have forgotten. In the meantime, veteran LAPD detective Jason Pryce is normally amid a gruesome investigation into a murdered scholar moonlighting being a prostitute. An opportunity encounter qualified prospects to them crossing paths, but Jessica soon realizes that Pryce can be concealing something about her father’s checkered background and her mother’s death.

To resolve her mother’s murder and her own disappearance, Jessica must dig into the former and find the secrets buried generally there. But the atmosphere gets thinner as she crawls nearer to the reality, and it’s obtaining harder and harder to breathe.