Audio Book Description:
In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time isrunning our for Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper`s terrifying game for a ransom no one can pay, her last hope iswashed-up ex-cop who has already lost itall--not once but twice. The wealthy world of the Palm Beach horsey set seems a long way from a cop`sworld in the narcotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff`s detective ElenaEstes worked the mean streetsand back alleys, living by herwits and playing the long odds until shetook one risk too many.Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope and selfhatred,hiding from the past andbelieving she doesn`t deserve to have a future. But the past isabout to come back with a vengeance, and the future isabout to become a race between life anddeath. A young woman is missing and her 12 yearold step-sistercomes to Estes for help.No one but serious, studious MollySeabright seems concerned aboutwhat`s happened to her troubled older sister. Estes with no PI lisence, and no desire to break her self-imposed exile. But themore she learns about the people Erin Seabright was involved with, the more her long dormant cop instincts come back tolife.One trip to the show grounds where Erin worked as a groom and Estes is quickly pulled to the dark side of a glamerous sport. Behind the ultra rich facade isan ultra ruthless world of drugs payoffs and dirty deals. And in that world stalks a killer who will lead Estes to down a twisted trail of mayhemand murder to a final showdown that could cost her everything. A race against time and evil. A race which Estes is the dark horse--and nobody isgoing to let her win.
