In every private investigation, there are rules and limitations-when a child's life is on the line, all may be broken. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Winter 2021 - Best Crime Fiction BRONZE MEDAL: Global eBook Awards, 2021 - Suspense Fiction FINALIST: Book Excellence Awards 2021 - Thriller FINALIST: Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2021 - Crime Fiction Payden Beck has been a police officer, a police detective, and a private investigator. Now, after a lifetime of combatting crime, he's ready to stop fighting.When a young girl named Chloe-kin to his greatest adversary-tries to hire him, he gives her the sad news. But, when Chloe makes her plight clear, Payden knows he must take her case, even if it means confronting a police force on the take, the Spanish Mafia, and, perhaps worst of all, Chloe's family.With life and death at stake, defeat is not an option; only sacrifice.EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS the second novel in the award-winning "Payden Beck Crime Thriller" series, from the same author who brought you such greats as fiX, Home, and Missing Pieces. And be sure to follow right up with the next books in this series: Bad, Go, and Runt.