Sixteen years ago, two teenage girls braved Kansas City’s underbelly searching for a missing parent. Their mission, marred by violence and betrayal, failed.

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Skye McClendon spent years struggling with the physical and emotional ordeal of that night, and eventually became an emergency room doctor. Now confident and accomplished, she is engaged to Kansas City’s most eligible bachelor, but her idyllic life is about to change. Unbeknownst to Skye, her fiancé launders money for a Russian mobster—and the FBI is on to him.

Jessie Arzate survived that night by using her guile and wits, and is now a street-smart nomad with checkered associations. When the FBI coerces her to reconnect with Skye, the person who caused her life to spin out of control, she’s motivated by more than just avoiding prison—she wants to exact revenge.

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Tough Girl weaves the stories of two complicated women, forever bound by the trauma of a tragic night, into gripping suspense as they find themselves thrust into the treacherous world of international money laundering.