Hayden Glass is on the fast track to making detective with the LAPD, but first he’s got to work his way through Vice. But as any cop can attest, you can’t leave your work at the office, and with Hayden’s cursed and troubled past, his soul is not in the best shape. His marriage is on the rocks and he’s carries a deep guilt and anger that nothing can seem to quench. Until one day he finds something that can make it all go away.

This short story sets the stage for Stephen Jay Schwartz’s Los Angeles Times bestselling debut novel, Boulevard, and its follow-up, Beat, both following Hayden Glass into crimes unimaginable and personal hells and healing.  

Cover art by J. Brandon Loberg