the Case of Tortured Souls

Ariel had recently started her dream job and was working up the nerve to propose to Carmen, the love of her life. And then her mentor and childhood hero winds up in a coma, she finds an abused child, and is now supposed to hunt down a vicious murderer with absolutely no experience or training in investigations. Can she stop the killer and unravel a twisted nest of secrets in time?Ariel and Carmen met in college and quickly fell for each other unbeknownst to either of them. Now, when Ariel is on the cusp of proposing, she discovers a terrifying secret Carmen has been keeping about herself for years. Will their relationship survive?If that wasn't enough to deal with, Ariel winds up crossing paths with Zeke, a sex worker whose easy going nature is much more seductive than Ariel was prepared for. Does Ariel have the ability to balance these two relationships while trying to stand up to forces more powerful than anything she'd ever dealt with before?