South of Justice - Paperback

When redemption is the only way out, love can be the most dangerous pursuit.

Former Deputy U.S. Marshal Ryan Inglis is a man on the run-disgraced, hunted by his own agency, and chasing one final shot at redemption: finding a missing American child lost in the shadowlands of a Mexican cartel.

Lucía Duarte, once the cartel's trusted financial prodigy, has resurfaced with the key to their destruction-a stolen digital ledger encrypted with secrets worth killing for.

When Ryan and Lucía collide in the mountains of Oaxaca, an uneasy alliance forms. What begins as mutual suspicion ignites into something far more volatile: trust, desire, and the faint hope of absolution. Together, they become a threat the cartel cannot ignore.

But Lucía's former lover, Javier Esquivel-the cartel's calculating financial mastermind-will stop at nothing to lure her back into his cage. As their enemies close in, Ryan and Lucía must outwit the devils they know before the past consumes them...and the boy they're trying to save disappears forever.

S.K. Muskat delivers a taut, emotionally charged story of two lost souls caught between duty and desire, set against the violent beauty of Latin America. South of Justice proves that even in the darkest places, love can be the ultimate act of defiance.