House of Smoke

Good-looking and gutsy Kate Blanchard once was a street-smart cop. But now she is working the other side of the street as a private eye for a poor little rich girl, moving through a maze of money and murder to the root of an evil buried deep in a California dynasty's dark past.

Miranda Sparks is as brilliant as she is beautiful, and as seductive as she is sexually voracious. She is also at the helm of a clan that has the awesome wealth, power, and position to get what they want, no matter who or what tries to get in their way.

And when these two women get in each other's way, it is Kate who suddenly gets caught in a web of twisted passions that drive people to kill....