Self-Preservation

Blue Devers smuggles women out of abusive relationships. He procures new identities and new lives, no questions asked—until one of the women winds up dead at the base of an Oregon coast cliff. The cops will call it suicide, but Blue knows Tamara MacDougall would never have jumped. He'll find her killer. He owes her that. But he doesn't expect the nasty turn the investigation takes.

Leslie Claire Walker's short fiction has appeared in Chiaroscuro, Fanatsy Magazine, GUD Magazine, Electric Velocipede, and DAW Books anthologies.