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