In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is running out for
eighteen year-old Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper's
terrifying game for a ransom no one can pay, her last hope
is a washed-up ex-cop who has already lost it all-not
once, but twice.
The wealthy world of the Palm Beach horse set seems a long
way from a cop's world in the narcotics division. A
lifetime ago, undercover sheriff's detective Elena Estes
worked the mean streets and BackTop alleys, living by her
wits and playing the long odds until she took one risk too
many. Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope and
self-hatred, hiding from the past and believing she
doesn't deserve to have a future. But the past is about to
come back with a vengeance, and the future is about to
become a race between life and death.
A young woman is missing and her twelve year-old
stepsister comes to Estes for help. No one but serious,
studious Molly Seabright seems concerned about what's
happened to her troubled older sister. But Molly is
convinced Erin is in danger. Estes has no P.I. license, no
interest in a new career, and no desire to break her self-
imposed exile. But the more she learns about the people
Erin Seabright was involved with, the more her long-
dormant cop instincts come back to life.
One trip to the show grounds where Erin worked as a groom,
and Estes is quickly pulled to the dark side of a
glamorous sport. Behind the glittering, ultra-rich facade
is an ultra-ruthless world of drugs, payoffs, and dirty
deals. A world of dissolute playboys and crooked horse-
dealers, of royalty and rabble, of rivals and enemies. An
obscenely wealthy world where anything can be had for a
price--including a life.
And in that world stalks a killer who will lead Estes down
a dark, twisted trail of decadence and deceit, mayhem and
murder--from the gilded life of Palm Beach to the darkest
corners of the Florida swamps, to a final show-down that
could cost her everything. A race against time and evil. A
race in which Estes is the dark horse--and no one is
betting on her to win.
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