About this ebook
After flaming out of MIT in a blaze of bad choices, Ashton Byrd reinvents himself in Los Angeles as a financial advisor to the rich and clueless (while taking a tidy cut for himself, of course). Got a huge monkey on your back? Rule one: don't take life seriously. Rule two: see rule one.
But when the sun-kissed playboy reluctantly returns to his soggy Oregon hometown, life gets serious in a hurry. Like fresh corpse serious.
Larry O'Conner—private investigator, his father's former partner, and Ash's honorary uncle—turns up dead. On top of that, something important has gone missing. Not "the valet misplaced my car keys" important. More like "end of the world as we know it" important. And powerful people want it back.
Now Ash is dodging bullets, bad memories, and the long shadow of his larger-than-life father while trying to figure out what Uncle Larry died protecting. Plus he can't do it alone. To solve the case—and finally shake the monkey off his back—he'll need help from Stephanie "The Streak" Hart, who may start as his surly Uber driver but soon proves to be a valuable asset. Tough. Brave. And with a trunkful of secrets of her own.
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About the author
SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER is the author of more than thirty books, spanning a wide range of genres and styles. His first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "touching and impressive debut" and won an Oregon Book Award. His book for younger readers, Wooden Bones, chronicles the untold story of Pinocchio and was singled out for praise by the Junior Library Guild. He is the author of the popular Garrison Gage mystery series set on the Oregon coast, the Karen Pantelli novels featuring the former FBI agent turned drifter, and the Myron Vale investigations, about the private investigator in Portland, Oregon who works for both the living and the dead. He lives in Oregon with his wife and his intrepid Irish Setter. Find out more at www.ScottWilliamCarter.com.
