The Piper Imperial Case

"Don't let them fool you. The killer isn't hiding. They're blending in."

"She didn't matter. That's what made it easy."

Newly promoted and eager to prove himself, Officer Javier Vittorio is assigned to the quiet town of San Pedro. Determined to maintain peace and uphold the law, he expects routine cases-nothing more. But that changes when he stumbles across the brutal, unsolved murder of a woman named Piper Imperial.

He wasn't assigned to the investigation. He wasn't even supposed to notice it. But something about the case doesn't add up.

Piper was mutilated beyond recognition, a woman no one in town seemed to care about-yet everyone claims to have known. As Javier digs deeper, he begins to uncover cracks in the town's serene façade. Everyone has something to hide. Everyone seems to know more than they're saying.

And the more he uncovers, the more certain he becomes: Piper's death wasn't random. It was calculated. Personal.

In a town that insists she never mattered...
Someone wanted her gone.