Margaux Piper has been swindled out of her inheritance. All of it. With her mother languishing in hospital, Margaux¿s unscrupulous husband Rowan, whose Gaugin-like fascination for young and pretty tropical woman has finally taken possession of him, has funneled the money offshore and promptly vanished.
Truly the definition of a damsel in distress, Reese agrees to help recover the funds and the restore the Piper legacy.
From the temperate rainforests of Vancouver, Canada to the tropical rainforests of Belize, Reese chases down the fortune and the man who stole it. But how to swindle a swindler and stay alive? Reese plans a con of the con-man, turning a simple grifter into a would be killer. And in the mix, she discovers the bloody and violent cost between fighting for the money and her life may exact a price higher than she can pay.
Good natured, sarcastic and tough, Theresa Maddux, Reese to her friends is a former Marine Corps Staff Sergeant capable of a singular mission focused determination. In relentless pursuit of the truth, she often finds herself skirting the edge of legality, working with law enforcement almost as frequently as she runs afoul of it. And in possession of an unorthodox charm, an unchecked wit and a jack hammer talent for scrapping, she has an uncanny knack for producing unconventional results, some dangerous, others deadly.
Hard-boiled fiction set in the present day, The Dawn's Blood Red Light is the fourth book in the exciting Theresa Maddux Adventure series. Novels to follow include A Hail of White Hot Vengeance and A Torn and Yellowed Yesterday.