Confidential Source
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Last published Wed, Dec 8, 2021
When a prodigy journalist and lawyer is assigned a lead to discover the truth about the underground crime world the last thing she wants is a newbie freelancer tagging along.
Phia Davenport is already a loner at The Dialect, this new assignment that has her racing the cops, masquerading as a crimelord, and threatening her life just heightens her suspicions of her so-called partner and anonymous lead. Will she keep her reputation? Or will this case prove too much of a challenge?
Nathen has always been the goody-two-shoes of his family. Faced with immense pressure from his boss to infiltrate the mafia network, he is willing to do whatever it takes. But when an unexpected ego trip writes him off as a lost cause he finds taking the case, might have been biting off more than he can chew.
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