Undercover cop Dan Hudson is framed for blackmail and kicked off the NOPD force. Enraged about that, and the fact that his lover refuses to stand by him, Dan moves to Denver, where he becomes Dirk Steele. He finds a job working for the Powells, who are pawnbrokers ... and fences. When he proposes to them that he put together a team to steal on demand for the Powells’ less than legitimate clients, a deal is struck and the team is formed. The team consists of Maverick, a thief; Tripp, a street kid who shoplifts to survive; and Fey, another street kid who is an excellent pickpocket and petty thief. Now the question becomes, will the team succeed? And, equally important, will the attraction between Dirk, who has sworn off love, and Maverick -- whose credo is only down and dirty sex -- grow into something more? Or will they remain just 'friends with benefits'? Time will tell as the team takes on increasingly difficult jobs and a man from Dirk's past shows up who could possibly throw a monkey wrench into the works.

Wrong Side of the Law

“How come you’re not just doing this all by your lonesome if you know how to break-and-enter?”


“I like the idea of working with other like-minded people. Besides which,” Dirk smiled, “with luck we’ll be so busy it’ll take all of us. What I’m thinking is, we pair up depending on the specific job. That way there’s always one person watching for trouble while the other one gets into the house or building.”


“Makes sense to me,” Maverick agreed.


“How are you going to teach me, us,” Fey looked around, lowering her voice, “to get in and out? I mean, you can’t just walk us up to someone’s house and say ‘first you do this, and then that’ and then let us try. We’d set off alarms in seconds.”


“Very true. We’re going to start at a place where I set up a new security system.”


“That should test how good you are at that,” Tripp said with a grin.


Chapter 17