Pro golfer Davis Stansbury III has the swing every kid dreams about—and the gambling habit no sponsor can ever see. When a smoky backroom poker game leaves him owing six figures to a man named Rizzo, Davis thinks a win at the Masters will buy his way out.

He wins. He pays. Someone still wants him dead.

In Calabasas, sports-agent-turned-fixer Jeff Rogers spots a dangerous overlap: his golden-boy client, a ruthless backroom bookie, and a billion-dollar cloud company called NimbusCore, built on “trust” and other people’s secrets. When an internal whistleblower at NimbusCore turns up dead in an apparent suicide, Jeff calls the only investigator he trusts more than his own instincts—his wife, PI Lindsay Carter.

With her research partner Boyd Parker, a retired character actor and gun collector, Lindsay steps into a world where high-stakes golf, shadowy gambling rooms, and a powerful tech founder all share the same off-books enforcer. As Lindsay pulls at the threads tying Davis, Rizzo, and NimbusCore together, she uncovers a hidden program that turns stolen code into profit—and silences anyone who gets in the way.

To save Davis’s life and stop a killer, Lindsay and Boyd will have to follow the money through the rough, outplay a man who treats murder like damage control, and decide how far they’re willing to go when “playing it as it lies” could get them buried.