South Florida is glitz, glamour, surf and sand. But its also full of shadows, a place where life's hard road crawls through back alleys, dark corners and right up to the doorstep of the sexiest place on earth. Some say this dark side is the very thing that makes it sexy. This collection of stories shows the hidden side of South Florida in all its noir glory. "Tropical Wave" - Where it all started... Vaughn gets his first job tracking down a runaway woman and a stolen kilo of weed and runs into trouble worse than anything he's could ever imagine. "Baby Carrier" - Police detective Jose "Peppy" Garcia has a problem: a drug runner he let go for money is the main suspect in a horrific murder. "Finding Richie" - Vaughn gets asked to do someone a favor and finds out that there are scarier things than him in South Florida. "Blue Neon Bitch" - A local politician might ruin the empire Vaughn's boss has worked hard to build. "The Backseat Virgin" - The girl was just another unnamed murder victim. But to Lee Price, she is the answer to a mystery that's haunted South Florida for over a year. And she just might lead to a war.