The sudden disappearance of Charles Conklin, a NASA engineer with access to classified military technology is dangerous enough.

The Mafia hitman waiting inside his house makes it lethal.

Orlando detective Scott Jarvis already struggles with a system that too often protects the powerful and buries the truth. But when a missing engineer's trail leads to the Florida Keys—and a brutal smuggling operation tied to stolen military secrets—Jarvis finds himself pulled into a case far bigger than a routine investigation.

Conklin made one catastrophic choice.

Now innocent people are dying because of it.

Teaming up with Nikki Sloane, a woman who may know more than she admits, Jarvis uncovers a conspiracy stretching far beyond Florida. But before he can expose it, he's pulled off the case without explanation.

Then Sarah Conklin pays the ultimate price.

Back in Orlando, another tragedy drives home a truth Jarvis can no longer ignore: the badge is tying his hands while innocent people pay the price.

So he walks away from the career he fought to build.

But not from the fight.

Now operating outside the system, Jarvis is drawn into a deadly war with a ruthless crime family trafficking stolen military technology through the Caribbean. To bring them down, he'll have to navigate killers, smugglers, and men willing to sell out their country for profit.

And if he wants the truth, he may have to become as dangerous as the men he's hunting.

Deadly Choices is the explosive first novel in the Scott Jarvis Private Investigator series—a high-stakes thriller of corruption, loyalty, betrayal, and the making of the man Scott Jarvis was destined to become.