Tabloid headlines tell about the lawyer who'd taken hostages, the story posted against every news stand in the city. Detailing the last demands of a man now behind bars. How he'd asked for only one thing: to speak with Eli Marlow. Some reporter from some middle-grade newspaper. Eli Marlow was always meant to be an investigative reporter. She's friends with street rats makes backroom deals with men and women of the underground and play Sunday poker with the detectives working some of the nasties crimes committed in this city. But this time she stepped into something much bigger than her usual flirt with danger. The players in this game are dangerous men with secrets worth killing for and Eli has just been placed on their radar. NaNoWriMo Goal: 33K/30K