✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive
✅ Likes kids and animals more than people
✅ Superpower: everyone falls in love with Sophie
✅ Likes to go off the grid and hide under a fake identity
✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never.
Paradise is filled with deadly secrets.
What would you do if you were a killer’s loose end?
Palm trees, volcanoes, and black sand beaches are the backdrop for murder as security specialist Sophie Ang, and her dog Ginger, are swept up in a multi-layered case on the Big Island of Hawaii working with a US Marshal to protect an important witness. A ghost from Sophie’s past returns to haunt her, and a love triangle tears at her heart. Sophie will need all of her friends, lovers, tech-savvy, and skills to stay alive...and that’s just her day job.
“Toby Neal has an amazing talent for weaving a complex and exciting plot together with fascinating descriptions of the characters’ emotions and fears. I can’t wait for the next book!” ~Walt, Advance Reader
Kirkus Reviews calls Neal's writing, "persistently riveting. Masterly."
Award-winning, USA Today bestselling social worker turned author Toby Neal grew up on the island of Kaua`i in Hawaii. Neal is a mental health therapist, a career that has informed the depth and complexity of the characters in her stories. Neal's police procedurals, starring multicultural detective Lei Texeira, explore the crimes and issues of Hawaii, and are so popular that they've spawned a licensed fan fiction world on Amazon.