Irish Candy walked away from the job—but the job didn’t walk away from her. Now stationed in St. Thomas, she’s the head of a new off-the-books division called Full Blood, a Stray Dogs unit with reach beyond borders and a mission to chase the kind of cases no one else wants to touch.
 
She doesn’t chase suspects anymore. That’s Seven Thomas’s job.
They said he wouldn’t survive.
Then they said he shouldn’t have.
Seven bullets. Legend was they just bounced right off him.
He walked out—and left a story behind no one wants to tell twice.
Now they just call him Seven Times.
A former Detroit cop turned island detective, Seven chooses his own cases, his own team, and his own timing. When a wave of military-grade weapons begins flooding the streets of Newport News, Virginia, Seven makes the call—this is the one.
 
First up on his list: Staff Sergeant January Jones. An active-duty MP with a flawless record and a tightly controlled life. But when her ex-husband moves to Newport News with their daughter and a new fiancée, her former platoon mate whose name shows up in Seven’s file—Jones is forced to choose between protocol and protection.
 
Then there’s Emma “Catbird” Cross, a Baton Rouge-bred private investigator who moonlights as a lounge singer between gigs. Her sister vanished five years ago without a trace. Now whispers around that same disappearance are echoing from inside the very pipeline Seven’s trying to shut down.
 
Neither woman was looking for a new assignment.
Connected to the case through familial ties.
Both are about to find out just how deep this one goes.
 
You can’t fake passion.
Either you have it or you don’t.
It’s embedded in your DNA—Full Blooded.