Another milestone! This month, I celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the publication of my first crime novel, Pay To Play.
Pay To Play may have been ahead of its time. Flawed and unlikeable protagonists, like the ones in Furious, the FBI drama series streaming on Hulu, weren’t exactly being embraced when my procedural was published on September 20, 2016.
A fabulous book launch party was held at the former SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia. Since then, the crime thriller has continued to receive rave reviews and high ratings from readers. I updated the cover a few years ago.
A book, no matter its publication date, is always new to someone who hasn’t read it yet.
Here’s the premise for Pay To Play: Special Agent Kari Wheeler may have made the worst decision of her life. The deeper she digs into the new assignment she unwisely accepted, investigating corruption in the Philadelphia strip club industry, the more her work threatens everything she values most—her FBI career, her marriage, even the closely held secrets of her painful past.
Inspired by true crime FBI cases featuring extortion, sex, money, and more, Pay To Play is gritty and raw, and contains strong language and infidelity.
Special Agent Kari Wheeler’s new case has her gathering the evidence to prove that a corrupt city official is accepting bribes and breaking the same adult entertainment laws he’s supposed to enforce. But when Kari enters the seductive world of high-end clubs and sleazy strip joints, she faces temptations too difficult to resist. Before she becomes the star of a media scandal that could sidetrack the corruption investigation and trial, the married mother-of-three must devise a counterplan to protect all at risk of being destroyed. How far will she go?
