Duty and Devotion

by Kaitlin Smith

Henderson Michaels possess an uncanny knack for putting bad people behind bars. Good-looking and cut throat, he has a bright future at the NYPD with his military background, and top of his class. He's one of the first police officers to move up in the ranks to Detective in under three years. He also has a reason behind wanting to be a police officer, that reason being his late father who was killed in the line of duty when he was a teenager.

Mariah Russo is your everyday daddy's girl who's always getting what she wants and that alone clouds the brain. She's about to find out the real truth about her father, Jionni Russo and the need Henderson has to take him down. She never knew she would become an unlikely ally with the NYPD and Detective Michaels. But, emotions and feelings get in the way of both Henderson and Mariah, causing them to get way too close for the department's liking. The attraction almost fatal.

Years later, fate brings them together once more, but not being too kind to either of them. Levi Jabon, Henderson's longtime Marine buddy and good friend, runs into him at a police conference in California, happy to see Henderson. Henderson doesn't realize the connection between him and his former lover Mariah. But, things are about to spiral out of control when Henderson arrives in town.

247 pages, Paperback

Published October 20, 2023