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Stolen Innocence is the second of the Jake Hunter series of mystery suspense novels. Finding the body of a beautiful young teenage girl launches Fort Worth Police Detective Jake Hunter and his partner, Billy Sanders, into an investigation that pulls them into a world of human trafficking where power brokers buy and sell human beings like cattle.

Two ordinary, everyday people with no criminal history gun down two organized crime rivals in the middle of downtown rush hour with countless witnesses. Fort Worth Police Detective Jake “Cowboy” Hunter and his team face a city on the brink of chaos with a puzzling string of crimes where the suspects’ motives have no logical explanation. They uncover the grim reality that someone is manipulating innocent people into committing murder. Then erasing all trace of their existence.

When two local gangbangers are found dead, who really cares? This "who cares" case quickly turns into a high-profile hunt for a serial vigilante killer. The body count and pressure rise in Fort Worth, Texas, as local community leaders and media pundits stir up political discourse and racial tensions mount. Police Detective Jake "Cowboy" Hunter has been out of the field for six months struggling to overcome the on-duty shooting death of his longtime partner. His boss has an easy case for him to "get back in the saddle" while breaking in a new detective.