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Tai Randolph is no stranger to solving mysteries. With a taste for danger and a talent for amateur sleuthing, she has helped put an assortment of murderers behind bars, much to the displeasure of Trey Seaver, her partner in both romance and crime solving. A former SWAT officer with the Atlanta police department, Trey believes in letting the authorities handle complex matters like homicide. But then the Talbot case flares back to life. It was the crime that rocked Atlanta—actress Jessica Talbot shot dead in her Buckhead mansion and her husband, movie producer Nick Talbot, accused of the murder. It seemed an open-and-shut case…until a dirty cop's secret forced prosecutors to set Talbot free. Now, four years later, someone wants him dead, and the evidence points to the man most convinced of Talbot's guilt—Trey. Talbot offers an irresistible deal—he'll keep Trey's name off the suspect list if Trey agrees to an interview. It's a chance for Trey to determine once and for all if Talbot really is a killer, but it could also expose secrets in Trey's own past, confidential information he has sworn to protect. Caught between his drive for justice and his need for security, Trey does the unexpected—he asks Tai to help him investigate. It's a situation fraught with potential disaster, the kind of case Tai relishes. With Trey by her side—and both of them in a killer's crosshairs—Tai vows to use every trick in her slightly sketchy playbook to stop a vigilante murderer from claiming a fresh victim.