Dedicated FBI Special Agent Noah Marshall lives his life by the book and from the moment he met Eva, he knew she was the love of his life. For her, he would do anything even become President making his family and country proud. But Eva keeps secrets, the kind that can destroy their future and a nation. Now Noah must choose if love is more valuable than honour.

Book 2 of the Penance trilogy finds Detective Sergeant Dagmar Johnson pregnant after her brief tryst with the handsome accountant. This bisexual, mixed race, German American is a magnet for trouble which seems to find her all too easily.

“What do you do when you dislike the mayor. You get him kidnapped, of course. Norman Sinclair seemed poised to return for his second term as the Mayor of Cardim until he is kidnapped mysteriously from a moving carriage two weeks from election day.

A partially dressed Detective Sergeant Dagmar Johnson wakes up lying next to an unknown man in an unknown house. In an attempt to discover how she ended up there, events that follow, lead her to an encounter with an organised crime gang heavily into prostitution, money laundering, loan sharking and the supply of heroin. Dagmar Johnson is serving penance in a specialised detective unit because she has had a history with alcohol.