Deanna King

The courtroom fiasco surprised them all, but in the end, those who needed to pay, paid. Jack West, finished with his temporary DEA assignment, is ready to go back to what he loves most: working homicide.

Houston Homicide Detective Jack West is back from a much needed vacation. Early on his second day back to work, Jack and his partner catch a new murder. A young Hispanic woman is found dead behind a dumpster at her apartment complex.

In the past fourteen months, Detective Jack West was ordered by the Attorney General’s office to stand down on his homicide case; he punched out his captain and resigned his position.

Cyrus Shelton has spent the last twenty-three years locked up in the Huntsville State Penitentiary with only one thing on his mind - revenge on the arresting detective, Frank Windom, and his lousy defense attorney, Jonell Simone.

Introducing Jack West a tenacious Houston Homicide Detective, a man who believes even the dregs of society deserve justice. After solving an exhausting murder case involving teenagers, Jack and his partner, Dawson Luck are assigned a cold case dating back 25 years.