"Danger stalks paradise.
The past never stays buried.
Sixteen years ago, Sergeant Lei Texeira met Harriet Vierra and Malia, the infant she adopted, in a deadly encounter in Mexico. Now a detective with the Maui Police Department, Harry works with Lei, and Malia, a teen sleuth, is determined to find her lost friend Camille.
But Camille is only one of many missing girls.
Young women are vanishing across the islands without a trace. Lei and Harry search for answers with the FBI, as Malia secretly conducts her own dangerous investigation: but for the girls taken by traffickers, time is running out.
***Shark Cove is a full-length novel with new characters, and beloved ones as well!***"
"If Lisbeth Salander and Jack Reacher had a Black/Thai love child…she would be SOPHIE.
✅ Brilliant hacker, MMA fighter, domestic abuse survivor, chronic depressive
✅ Likes kids and animals more than people
✅ Often goes off the grid and hides under a fake identity
✅ Never, never gives up on a case. Never.
Paradise is haunted by betrayal.
What if you discovered that those closest to you were not who they seemed?
Tech sleuth Sophie Ang, her lovable dog Ginger, and her partner, Jake Dunn, tackle a new case involving a famous hula festival on the Big Island--but that's only one of the hot situations demanding Sophie's attention. Repercussions from the past and the return of a deadly relative threaten to tear apart the fragile life Sophie's trying to build. Everyone around her seems to want more from Sophie than she can give, and one of them plans to take her life.
In the midst of a volcano of conflicting agendas, Sophie must find a way to truth, victory and freedom.
'Neal's writing is persistently riveting... Masterly.' ~Kirkus Reviews"