House of Smoke

A Santa Barbara PI falls in with one of California’s most dangerous families.Two

years ago, Kate Blanchard and her partner failed to stop a tragedy.

When a man killed his family and then himself, Kate didn’t even fire a

shot. Two years later, Kate is divorced, and trying to make it as a

private detective. Young, wealthy Laura Sparks

hires Kate to look into the suspicious death of her lover, a marijuana

smuggler who committed suicide in jail. As Kate gets sucked into the

darkness of the Sparks family, she learns that the rich and powerful can

be just as dangerous as a madman with a gun.