Judged, Bullied, Attacked - What Hasn't Destroyed You Can Make You Stronger.Distrust bursts into the fires of passion.To keep her mother's reputation from destroying her, Ashley Dix Gibson had to learn at an early age to persevere and tune out the lies, gossip, and the bullies. Detective Michael DeMarco has no desire to team up with a woman with ties to the underbelly of the porn industry but if he wants to solve his case, he has no other options. He has a dead body. She has the seedy connections. To solve the crime they are forced to combine their resources to find a brutal killer.