When Miami Whispers - J. R. Walton

Miami is beautiful the way danger is beautiful - all heat and light on the surface, something far darker moving underneath.

Damon Reyes spent fourteen years as a DEA intelligence analyst learning to read cities the way other men read faces. He knows which addresses don't appear on maps. He knows which handshakes close the deals that never touch paper. And he knows, the moment Selena Varga walks into his Brickell office, that whatever she's about to tell him is going to cost him more than his fee.

Her brother Marcus is dead. The official report says drowning. Selena says murder - and she's brought the forensic accounting to prove it. What neither of them knows yet is how deep the water goes: $400 million in cartel money laundered through Miami's luxury real estate market, a corrupted federal agent who has buried the case twice, and a conspiracy that reaches from Little Havana to the top floors of the financial district.

Working together in the compressed, pressurized intimacy of a dangerous investigation, Damon and Selena move from client and investigator into territory that neither of them planned for. She is brilliant, driven, and carrying a grief she hasn't let herself fully feel. He is controlled, methodical, and increasingly aware that maintaining professional distance from this particular woman requires more discipline than any surveillance operation he's ever run.

When the targets start shooting back - and the threats move from professional to personal - everything Damon thought he understood about risk calculates differently. Because this time, what he's protecting matters.

When Miami Whispers is an adult romantic thriller for readers who want their pulse racing and their emotions fully engaged. High-stakes financial crime, cutting-edge surveillance technology, and a love story that burns as hot as the city around it.