Stella Lavender, an SBI undercover drug agent, is pulled into a homicide investigation after a wedding goes bad. Real bad. As an undercover drug agent, Stella Lavender works nights, buying drugs from paranoid drug dealers. But the physical danger and necessary betrayals are getting to her. When she sees a chance to work homicide, she’ll always take it.
One afternoon Stella gives a hitchhiking teenager a ride to her babysitting job in a wealthy neighborhood. Horror awaits them—the father lies dead in a pool of blood, and his toddler is missing. The puzzle quickly grows when a dizzying array of suspects provides more questions than answers.
In this darkly delightful page-turner, Stella Lavender rummages through every strata of society in her relentless and unconventional pursuit of a cold-hearted murderer who won’t stop at just one victim.