You Signed. Rum & Gunpowder, #1

Some fortunes are buried. Others are hunted. Beck Marlowe has spent five years turning Scalywag's, his seventeen-room South Beach hotel, into a refuge from the life he left behind. With his sharp-eyed partner Elena Duarte and enigmatic piano man Gus Baptiste, he offers guests privacy, good food, and no questions about the past. Then singer Francesca Mireilles is found dead in an alley hours after Beck walks her back to the hotel.
The police see an obvious suspect: Francesca's escaped husband, convicted cargo swindler Nico Carrow. But Beck cannot ignore the details that refuse to fit-the missing phone, the threatening performer searching her room, the journalist who began asking questions days before the murder, and a claim check hidden beneath a bedside lamp. Francesca came to Miami for something connected to Carrow's vanished fortune.
Now a package requiring a signature is moving through the city, and several dangerous people are determined to receive it. As Beck and Elena follow the trail from neon-lit Ocean Drive to Little Havana clubs, cargo roads, storage facilities, and the mangrove-lined edge of the coast, every answer tightens the trap around them. The money may be hidden inside an ordinary suitcase. So may something designed to kill whoever opens it.
To uncover who murdered Francesca, Beck must return to the instincts and underworld connections he hoped the hotel had buried. But in Miami, signatures carry obligations, paper trails can become death warrants, and someone unseen has been watching the entire game unfold. You Signed launches Rum & Gunpowder, a tropical crime adventure mystery series filled with Miami noir atmosphere, buried fortunes, dangerous conspiracies, and a reluctant investigator whose past is never as far behind him as it seems.