It was to be a mini-vacation on Newport Beach’s golden sands for the retired Judge and his young wife, now very pregnant. But it turned, that morning, into something else.

He’d agreed to do the FBI a small favor. Pick up a jump drive was all. But now there was a murder. He found himself head to head with one of America’s most subversive societies. Evidence implied a plot, but to do what? Wreak havoc on Orange County’s foremost amusement park as the FBI suspected? Or perhaps something more sinister.

And as The Judge sets out to identify the murderer, his FBI partners suddenly turned antagonists, determined to stop his investigation at any cost.

No one seemed to be who they said. Conflicting interests, shifting identities, hidden agendas, sliding loyalties and unbridled hubris, everywhere The Judge turned. Who to believe? Who to trust? How to balance claims of national security against the right of the victim and his family for justice and closure.

And all the while trying to cope with his pregnant wife, unstable and depressed, not the person he’d thought he’d married, buckets of testosterone coursing through her system as her body prepares for the birth of a son unplanned.

Follow the Judge through the labyrinth of California’s famed Orange Coast, its bars, swank restaurants, beaches, bays, and glitzy tourist attractions. Peek into its hidden power structure and glimpse the ugly truths beneath the great wealth. Watch The Judge uncover plans for an engineered ecological disaster that would change Southern California forever.

As The Judge pieces together what really happened, and why?… That morning…in Newport Beach—on THE BAY…

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You’ll Like This Book If…

• You marvel at the Orange County way of life
• You’re looking for a page-turning adventure
• You have an interest in domestic intelligence and security
• You believe in racial equality
• You enjoy Orange County murder mystery novels
• You’re intrigued by murder mystery novels with a social purpose