Hidden Deals

HIDDEN DEALS, Book One

Kevin Murphy doesn't lose.

He built his empire from scratch, starting with nothing in Inglewood and ending up as the most powerful real estate broker in Los Angeles. He knows how every room works before he walks into it. He has never lost a deal that mattered.

Then a judge gives him a choice.

Seven days of community service or a mentorship program he has to build from the ground up. Kevin chooses the mentorship. He finds Ryan Stewart - twenty-three, broke, first-generation college grad, from the same streets Kevin spent twenty years trying to forget. Ryan is sharp in a way that surprises Kevin. He reads situations fast. He sees things other people miss.

Including things about Kevin.

Then there is Elena. A journalist. Covers urban development, housing policy, the politics of money and real estate. She asks good questions. Kevin tells himself that's just the job. He knows better.

What Kevin doesn't know is that Elena has been working on something for six years. And his name has been in the file the whole time.

Hidden Deals is a business thriller set in the luxury real estate world of Los Angeles. Big deals, real legal detail, a mentor and a mentee who are more alike than either of them wants to admit, and a woman who is not who she says she is. If you read for plot, there is plenty of it. If you read for character, these people will stay with you.

Los Angeles rewards the bold. It also remembers everything.