Tattooed in Fire: The Vardia Fischer Files

Detective Vardia Fischer is the Nine-Nine's most mysterious force - sharp, unshakable, inked with secrets, and strangely closed off from everyone. No one knows she lives in a mansion with five children, a tiger, a sarcastic talking bird, and a past soaked in blood and survival. Not even her closest squadmates suspect that beneath her icy control lies a history of crime, violence, trauma... and love.

But when secrets unravel, bodies fall, and the family she's built is threatened by ghosts of her past, Vardia must protect what's hers - even if it means killing again.

With dark humor, chaotic family energy, emotional twists, and more animals than any NYPD officer should legally own, this is a story of resilience, rage, motherhood, healing, and the kind of love that's earned in scars.

From Brooklyn to Israel and back, Vardia's war never really ended - she just learned how to survive it with lipstick, tattoos, and a loaded gun under the table.

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