Publisher's Synopsis
Eighteen-year-old runaway, Vanessa Phillips, knows a secret...and the secret knows her-knows where she sleeps and where she eats on the streets of Pacific Beach in San Diego, California.Crooked Las Vegas politician Harry Olivetti is willing to kill in order to protect this secret, and his two hired assassins are closing in leaving Vanessa nowhere left to run.To a city by the sea-where the world flocks for sun, sand and surf-comes legendary FBI missing persons consultant, Jake Moriarity...a lost soul in a desperate search to find this lost girl. Moriarity can save her, but first, he has to find her. And the only thing he has to go on is like a watercolor painting that has been left out in the rain with all the colors running together.
