Trade-Off — Maxine O'Callaghan

Escalating violence in Southern California puts even tough and savvy Delilah West's nerves on edge. She wants a safe, routine case and thinks finding missing teenager Tamra Wylie is just that - until Delilah discovers a corpse in the yard next door to the young woman's home. Tamra may be another victim or a witness on the run from a killer. Somebody's going to make sure Delilah doesn't find out. If two tons of hurtling metal truck in a deserted parking lot won't do the trick, a confrontation in the lonely woods of the San Bernadino mountains may just finish the job. To complicate life further, Delilah can't seem to get rid of Erik Lundstrom, the wealthy land developer she finds sexier than she wants to. Both professionally and personally, things are getting hot enough to make even cool, collected Delilah break out in a sweat.