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Dublin, Ireland. Aspiring teen model, Amanda Delaney disappears shortly after landing in the country for a modelling assignment. Private investigator, Lara Steele is hired by Amanda´s wealthy parents to find their daughter. Scarred by the loss of her husband at a young age, Lara has cautiously found love again in Alex, a sensei at her dojo. When Alex´s sister Siobhan also vanishes mysteriously after arriving in Dublin, Alex and his friend Slade fly to Ireland in an attempt to find her. Lara is forced to confront her worst fears when both men disappear without a trace while running down a lead in Galway. Left with no choice, she takes matters into her own hands and, along with her closest friend Wanda, travels to Ireland under an assumed identity. Posing as a high end brothel owner, Lara finds herself drawn into the chilling Irish underworld of the Aryan Brotherhood and human trafficking. Her investigation leads her from Dublin to Galway where she makes a shocking discovery. Faced with mortal danger, Lara risks everything to find Alex before it´s too late.

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Born in Zimbabwe in 1969, Linda Twiggs immigrated to South Africa in 1980 where she resides in Durban. Married for twenty five years, the sudden loss of her husband Glenn to lung cancer in 2014 set her on the therapeutic path of writing a novel. She quickly fell in love with the creative process and a new heroine, Lara Steele, was born.

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