Hardboiled Harlot

Andrea Bachman was a humble meter maid until her precious badge was taken away from her; to make ends meet on her shoestring pension, she gives walking the sidewalks of Santa Virginia’s Red-Light District a try... and in the process befriends the very sex workers she formerly oppressed. When a notorious antifascist who united the disparate movements of a city vanishes and the cops do nothing to find him, Andrea takes on the case only to realize that she won’t get far as an unlicensed private investigator with no access to police resources. Selling her body to a crooked, kinky vice captain earns her a new badge, but also casts doubt on her untested loyalty to her fellow sex workers. Between half a dozen lovers pulling her deeper and deeper into the depths of kink, a ghost whispering into her ear about the ideals of justice and righteousness that drove her to become a cop in the first place, and corporations and politicians eager to brand her a villain, Andrea must balance desire and dut