A rookie female cop is captured by the mob boss she is working to take down. She is taken to a facility where she sees just what happens when a man has unlimited resources and limited morals.
INCLUDES TITLE ILLUSTRATION Dr Clare Keller has a certain way with the dead. She knows their secrets. Useful insight for a Medical Examiner who is no stranger to violent death. But Clare fails to heed a dire warning from beyond. A mistake with humiliating consequences.
On his last school day before preparing to live with his father, white 14-year-old Ethan is groped and kissed by his hunky black track coach. The next week, while biking up to a remote mountain reservoir, Ethan stops at a country store, where he encounters the coach, who lures Ethan into his van for heavy petting and foreplay. When the coach wants to move to the back of the van, where there are restraints and padding, Ethan flees and bikes up to the reservoir. The coach follows him in the van.
The story of what Brian did, and the fallout from his actions which wre felt at the highest levels of government. As a warning there is a reference to under age sex but only to say it took place.
A newly arrived fourteen-year-old military academy cadet meets a randy redneck night fisherman in a truck by a lake where the cadet has been dumped, nearly naked, in a hazing ritual.
Jackie the narrator is a common young thief, reporting back to his Fence, having gone outside of his comfort zone. He's a successful ram-raider. His hero is The Panther, a cat burglar with a reputation on being Old School. Can Jackie emulate his hero and rob softly softly?