Los Angeles is a city of dreams, but for Raven Lane, it's become a nightmare.
When the adult film star discovers a headless corpse in her car, she's plunged into a world of terror and suspicion.
With the police offering little help and a stalker growing bolder by the day, Raven turns to Ryan Lock, a private security specialist with a reputation for getting results.
As Lock digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a web of corruption and violence that threatens to consume them both.
With the Santa Ana winds fanning the flames of danger, Lock and Raven must navigate a treacherous landscape of lies, betrayal, and murder
In a city where everyone has something to hide, can they expose the truth before it's too late?
'Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.' – Jesse Kellerman
'The action comes hot and heavy, but Lock never gives up on a fight. Black's star just keeps on rising.' – Evening Telegraph
To research his books, Sean Black has trained as a bodyguard in the UK and Eastern Europe, spent time inside America's most dangerous Supermax prison, Pelican Bay in California, undergone desert survival training in Arizona, and ventured into the tunnels under Las Vegas.
His Ryan Lock and Byron Tibor thrillers have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
When he’s not writing, Sean trains combat sports. In Paris in 2023 he became the only amputee to ever become a European champion in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.View all by Sean Black