The Hollow Hours

When private investigator Cassidy Drake accepts Janet Hollister's job, to follow her husband for two weeks, she expects a cheating spouse and a fat paycheck. What she gets is a missing daughter, a conspiracy of silence, and a small town rotting from the inside out. Cassidy's investigation pulls her into the orbit of two powerful families: the Vosses, patriarch Arthur and his guarded daughters Sasha and Elena, and the Bells, whose brotherhood includes Marcus and the enigmatic Father Dominic, a priest whose confessional seems to hold more secrets than prayers. Overseeing the local courts is Judge Raymond Hollis, whose rulings have never once favored the powerless. Rounding out Cassidy's growing suspect list are Tommy Greer, a charming grifter; Nia Caldwell, a sharp-eyed journalist one step ahead of the story; Virgil Holt, a fixer for the wealthy who leaves bruises on his invoices; and Lorraine Pacheco, a woman whose loyalty belongs only to herself. As the hollow hours stretch between midnight and dawn, Cassidy uncovers ties between a decades-old disappearance, judicial corruption, and a clergy-bound cover-up stretching back twenty years. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous the silences become. With someone watching her every move and a missing girl whose case no one wants solved, Cassidy must decide whether to cash out and run, or burn the whole rotten empire down and risk becoming its next ghost.