Detective Mario DeLuca had thought that he'd seen the last of Kate Fontenot, his former fiancée. But when she comes to him with a request for help, Mario is unable to say no. Teaming up with his partner, Detective Howard Blitz, Mario sets out to uncover the secrets within Rockford Auction House. There the two detectives get pulled into a case which pits them against the FBI, the ATF, a ring of sex-traffickers, and an assassin who's past connection with Howard and Mario could force them into early retirement. Can Mario bend the rules enough to solve this case, or has New Orleans's star detective finally meet his match? Set in the history-filled city of New Orleans, readers will feel part of the city as they travel the streets and waterways in this action-packed, intriguing, and heartfelt book to discover more adventures in the True Blue Detective series.

Mario DeLuca wanted to be a police officer for as long as he could remember. His first beat was the New Orleans French Quarter, on foot. He met business owners and learned street scams from the best con-artist.Mario befriended Lucinda Jones who picked up a nick name of Voodoo Lucy later in the True Blue Detective Series. The first day she met Mario she had something to offer the undercover cop.She soon found herself looking down the barrel of a gun by a local thug that liked beating on woman. Lucy left Tupelo Mississippi with her mother Wanda to escape an abusive father who beat on her mother sometimes just because it was a Tuesday—he didn't need a reason.It was risky for Lucy to take on an abusive woman beater drug dealer but that was Lucy. With her new found police officer friend they set up their own con to put this thug behind bars.This story is a prequel, taking place immediately before the events in the first book of the, True Blue...