My name is Brant Colton. I'm a blackmailer -- a good one -- and I make no apologies for my chosen career.<br><br>One evening, at a very private club I belong to, I spotted a young man who piqued my interest. Why? Because he, Lorne Raynell, wasn't taking advantage of what the club had to offer. It took time, but I finally found out why. He was intent on finding out who murdered his brother.<br><br>The rest, as they say, is history. Our history.

Everyone Has Secrets

“All right,” Gavin said a few minutes later. “There are no wants or warrants out on Durant or any of his close associates, or anything which implicates any of them in sex trafficking. None of them have been arrested for anything more than speeding tickets. The one thing I did discover, however, was a report about a dead homeless kid found by a dumpster behind his Rotunda Motel in Topeka. It probably would have been put down to his dying of exposure, given the fact he had on nothing but a T-shirt and tattered jeans and it was mid-January. However, he’d been sexually assaulted, to quote the report, andalso severely beaten before being left there. The police did a cursory investigation but there was nothing to tie him to the motel or any of the other businesses nearby, including a triple-X rated movie house.”


“In other words, someone raped and killed him,” Lorne said, horror in his voice and demeanor.


Chapter 24