Prequel to Broken Shields

In a city where justice is for sale, some rules were meant to be broken.

Internal Affairs Detective Kat Booker knows the cost of a dirty badge. She's built her career on a single, uncompromising principle: hold the line, no matter who is standing on the other side.

When she's assigned to investigate Officer Jesse Martinez for evidence tampering in a high-profile murder, the case looks like an open-and-shut betrayal. The politics are clear: bury Martinez fast and move on. But in the rain-slicked streets of Tideview, nothing is ever that simple.

The victim was a building inspector digging into the dark heart of the Tideview Reclamation Group—a corporate titan with enough muscle to make inconvenient people disappear. The prime suspect is a board member's son who acts like the law doesn't apply to him. And Martinez? He isn't acting like a guilty man. He's acting like a man who knows a storm is coming and is trying to keep the city from drowning.

Kat joined IA to be better than the corrupt system that got her father killed. Now, with a forty-eight-hour clock ticking and the department turning its back, she faces a choice: follow the manual that failed her family, or trust her gut and shatter every rule in the book.

In the Bay Area's shadow, the heaviest weight isn't the badge—it's the truth.

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