When Joey O'Keefe decides to embark on a new career working for a local transfer agent, he stumbles upon a world of corruption and greed. Eager to prove himself to his new senior management he unwittingly uncovers a crime that reaches to the very top of the organization. With nowhere to turn, Joey races through the streets of Boston to prove his innocence and save his life. Every move he makes could be his last and everyone he trusts could be his enemy. Based as a fictional thriller, "Better Off Lost" details the inner workings of the transfer agent and state abandoned property offices. For anyone who has ever noticed those abandoned property names in the newspaper and thought-"That could never happen to me."-think again. Upon reading "Better Off Lost," those innocuous notices, appearing in the mail and daily newspapers, will not be taken for granted. Readers will rush to put their finances in order so they will not end up as a statistic in their state's abandoned property office.