Jonathan Quinn is a "cleaner," a "ghost" who works as a high-priced janitor of sorts. Being a cleaner means disposing of any and all evidence after an event, often unsavory in nature, to ensure that the incident "never happened." Being a cleaner also means not getting involved and not getting emotional, because doing either is what gets a cleaner killed. Unfortunately, Quinn's latest job has hit just a little too close to home and now he's risking his life to find a killer and save a woman before she ends up as a job for another anonymous cleaner...

When Quinn is called in to dispose of a body found at the Los Angeles shipping yard, he almost doesn't take it since his contact is less than forthcoming about the details of the body's discovery. However, once Quinn learns that the body belongs to Steven Markoff, a man who once saved Quinn's life, simply performing his job as a cleaner is not enough. Quinn never imagines that his own life will soon be turned upside down or that he'll begin to break his own cardinal rules for survival. The only thing that matters is finding out what happened to Markoff and personally breaking the news to Jenny, Markoff's naive and now completely vulnerable girlfriend. But when Quinn tries to locate Jenny, she too seems to be missing. Quinn begins to wonder if she could be next on the killer's list -- or could she already be dead? Fortunately, Markoff left Quinn a clue and this clue could be the key to solving the mystery of Markoff's death and saving an innocent life. If only Quinn can figure out what it means!

With help from his apprentice, Nate, and his forbidden love, Orlando, Quinn undertakes the task of finding Markoff's killer and tracking down Jenny. But this isn't a job Quinn will get paid for. Instead, he will be exacting justice for a friend and the price might just be his very own life.

I enjoyed reading THE DECEIVED because of the many twists and turns in the plot. Often, I thought I knew what was going on, I thought I had figured out "whodunit," but by the end of the next page, I doubted myself again and felt as clueless as I did when Markoff's body was first discovered. I felt suspicious of every character and trusted no one!