✅ Hacker, MMA fighter, domestic violence survivor, chronic depressive, Sophie likes children and animals better than people
✅ Sophie’s yellow lab Ginger is the only companion in her bed—for now.
✅ She never gives up on a case. Never.
Paradise has no protection from a hacker with a hidden agenda.
What would you do to uncover a deadly conspiracy?
Special Agent Sophie Ang catches a child kidnapping case that twists her heart with memories from her past. Meanwhile, her rogue data analysis program identifies a pattern that leads her into a cat-and-mouse game online with a deadly vigilante whose motives are unclear.
The chase lures Sophie into a confrontation with the violence from her past that sent her fleeing to the United States. She’ll need every skill she’s learned, all of her friends in Hawaii, and her beloved dog Ginger, too, as she faces her worst nightmare.
“Toby Neal has created a wonderfully rounded action heroine with everything: looks, brains, mixed martial arts prowess, and the ability to swear proficiently in Thai.” Russell Blake, NYT and USA Today Bestselling Thriller Author
Kirkus Reviews calls Neal's writing, "persistently riveting. Masterly."
Award-winning, USA Today bestselling social worker turned author Toby Neal grew up on the island of Kaua`i in Hawaii. Neal is a mental health therapist, a career that has informed the depth and complexity of the characters in her stories. Neal's police procedurals, starring multicultural detective Lei Texeira, explore the crimes and issues of Hawaii from the bottom of the ocean to the top of volcanoes, and are so popular that they've spawned a licensed fan fiction world. Fans call her stories, "Immersive, addicting, and the next best thing to being there."