Idle Substance
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Last published Sat, Jun 18, 2016
Tristan Cesar Rios is a gorgeous homicide detective with special skills for the Mesa PD out in the deserts of Arizona. He is called into investigate the abduction of the state governor's daughter, Cooper Allen. Cooper was preparing for a track meet at Arizona State University, when she was taken in the parking lot by a stranger. All the police have to go on is the vehicle description and ethnicity of the man who took her. It will take a battle of wits and weeding out the lies to be able to pinpoint the abductor. The governor wants his daughter back and will do anything to make that happen. Is everything really as it seems? Does the mystery abductor know Cooper or was it simply a moment of opportunity?
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