Böcker i Sean O'Connor & Cindy Matasar Boxer-serien

Cindy is assigned as the investigator to what would appear to be an open and shut case of wife-beater killing his wife, but she and the public defender lawyer assigned to it, Janet Bowers, find odd facts that point to their client being framed for a crime he didn't commit. Since their client is a retired professional boxer, they ask Sean to look into his past to see if there is anything in it which would point to someone with a motive for framing their client for murder. Looking into the past, Sean discovers several boxers had the odd ill fate that their client has had, and they all had one thing in common, they beat a boxer named Cade Fulmer many years ago, whose current presentations as a motivational speaker indicate a psychotic level of grandiosity. Sean is able to trap Fulmer into making admissions and freeing their client from the false charges. Working together, Cindy and Sean become romantically attracted to each other.

Sean is asked by a boxing trainer to find outwhy a promising teenage boxer has suddenlybecome morose and depressed. Before Seangets around to doing so, the young man isfound dead; an apparent suicide after havingjumped off a building. Motivated by guilt, Seanconvinces Cindy to leave the public defender'soffice and join him in a private investigationagency with the death of Damiyun Walker astheir first case. Cindy and Sean become bothbusiness partners and lovers.They discovered that Damiyun had found outthat a thirteen year old Vietnamese girl wasbeing used as a sex slave by a local gang and hewas killed when he tried to rescue her. Thehomicide detective looking into these twodeaths also ends up dead under circumstanceswhich indicate someone in law enforcement isbehind running the sex slavery of Vietnamesegirls in Portland. Sean, a Vietnam vet, has toconnect with his past contacts in the Marinecorps to find out who in Portland has theconnections in Vietnam to get these girls pastICE enforcement, and ends up in ashow-down with the ringleader.