Eight Beat (Unabridged‪)‬

Private investigator Bryson Wilde walks the blurred line between justice and survival, where morality is murky, danger wears perfume, and every favor comes with a price. In a city that never sleeps—just smolders—cigarette smoke curls through dimly lit bars, and jazz spills out of alleyway clubs like secrets begging to be told. Wilde thinks he’s seen it all—until a captivating criminal defense attorney steps into his life, heels clicking like a warning shot, eyes hiding a thousand stories. She wants him to find a missing witness. Simple job, on paper. But Wilde knows better. In his world, nothing stays simple for long. What begins as a routine search spirals into a deadly puzzle of lies, betrayal, and buried sins—where every answer only raises more questions, and trusting the wrong person could get you killed.