A noir thriller set against the sun-bleached edges of Southern California.

The money didn't stay in the bay. It moved south, and it brought violence with it.

Detective Zane Bruce followed his father into law enforcement, believing the badge could outrun blood. Now, his partner is gone, his career is hanging by a thread, and a case involving the mayor's son pulls him deep into a web of Inland Empire real estate deals where corruption wears tailored suits and buries its mistakes in the dirt.

As bodies stack up across San Bernardino, the trail leads somewhere Zane never wanted to look. Back to his own family.

His father walked away from the badge and into a life no one talks about. Outlaw. Ghost. Liability.

But as the investigation tightens and powerful interests from San Francisco push south, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: the man who walked away from the law may be the only one who knows that some justice isn't meant for the light.

Set in the dry heat and hard edges of the Inland Empire, They Took It Inland is a gritty crime thriller about fathers and sons, loyalty and betrayal, and the cost of trying to rewrite a legacy soaked in lies.

Because when the crime comes inland, it doesn't leave witnesses behind.

Advance digital review copy. Publication date: March 31.