Marisol Vega has spent six months copying the Krupin syndicate's ledgers one column at a time, and nine days ago a pit boss named Gennady put his ring across her cheek for asking the wrong question. The FBI offers her a safe house and a witness stand. She's read enough depositions to know what happens to women who take that deal.
So she takes a different one. Rocco Santoro runs the Iron Serpents, the syndicate's most profitable problem, and he wants the same ledgers she's been hiding. His offer is simple: a patch, a bike, a room, and every man in the club standing between her and the people who want her dead. In exchange she audits the Serpents' books and finds the thief who's been bleeding them for a year.
She finds him in nine days. He's the friendliest man in the clubhouse.
She also finds out that Rocco has been paying her mother's rent in Henderson since March-four months before he ever met her. He saw her testify. He decided then.
