Damaged Goods
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Erica Jensen, a retired Marine with PTSD, struggles with making a living as an unlicensed private eye and overcoming her opioid addiction. When she's hired by a rich business man to find his missing daughter and recover embezzled money, things go south fast when she stumbles across a dead body.
As Erica tries to discover why the victim was killed and where the girl disappeared, she ends up being targeted by the Russian mob. However, it takes all of Erica's wits to find out the astonishing truth behind it all.
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