Vicky De Leo

Double Down Vicky De Leo

Publisher Marketing: Nothing is routine when you work at a splashy hotel/casino in Las Vegas. The lure of half-naked women and millions of dollars of cash every day create a unique workplace. As Human Resources Director, Valerie Peterson assumes she's seen it all, until security finds an employee murdered in her office and the sexy but sullen detective in charge of the case treats her like a suspect. When the police discover that the woman had been working under an assumed name, Valerie believes the answer to the murder must lie in her carefully concealed past. What she finds is a trail of blackmail that leads right back to her. Valerie's no blackmailer, but after her home is burglarized, and her life threatened, she must accept that someone thinks otherwise, possibly someone she works with every day. She is forced to reexamine the motives of everyone around her. While her career spirals out of control, her love life is heating up. Still bruised from a disastrous first marriage, Valerie is torn between the safety and comfort she feels in one man's arms and the passion she feels for another. To complicate the matter further, the police arrest the one person Valerie is sure couldn't have committed the murder. Her job and her life in jeopardy, Valerie digs into Monica's past hoping to find some clue to unmask the real killer.