Phantom Pain
Description
PHANTOM PAIN is a fast-paced mystery thriller that examines the familial bond, sexual tension and obsessive love a young man feels for the girl he was raised with in the sort of transient, non-nuclear family endemic to contemporary Los Angeles—the land where dreams never die, they simply mummify.
Jordan Kessler works for a Westside entertainment lawyer by day and spends his nights cramming for his third attempt at the California Bar. His aspirations aren’t his own, but rather the implicit requirements to win Deidra Farrow, whose deep and ever-changing pool of need came imprinted in her DNA.
Deidra learned early that her ticket to fast living was her ability to manipulate males with means. However, her latest reach for the Brass Ring was a stretch that could cost her whole arm. Her rich, spoiled boyfriend is dead; Deidra’s fallen off the grid and Jordan’s house just exploded—with him inside.
Jordan’s a bright guy, but he’s fighting way above his weight class. A vicious burglary ring, a desperate blackmailer and a powerful ex-cop hell bent on vengeance all stand in his path. With his dream crumbling like a sandcastle built too close to the sea, Jordan’s only chance is to team up with Charley White, a female security specialist whose balls are even bigger than his.
Only… Charley has skin in this game too. And it’s just possible that this is a contest that nobody wins.
Jordan Kessler works for a Westside entertainment lawyer by day and spends his nights cramming for his third attempt at the California Bar. His aspirations aren’t his own, but rather the implicit requirements to win Deidra Farrow, whose deep and ever-changing pool of need came imprinted in her DNA.
Deidra learned early that her ticket to fast living was her ability to manipulate males with means. However, her latest reach for the Brass Ring was a stretch that could cost her whole arm. Her rich, spoiled boyfriend is dead; Deidra’s fallen off the grid and Jordan’s house just exploded—with him inside.
Jordan’s a bright guy, but he’s fighting way above his weight class. A vicious burglary ring, a desperate blackmailer and a powerful ex-cop hell bent on vengeance all stand in his path. With his dream crumbling like a sandcastle built too close to the sea, Jordan’s only chance is to team up with Charley White, a female security specialist whose balls are even bigger than his.
Only… Charley has skin in this game too. And it’s just possible that this is a contest that nobody wins.
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