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The Gemini Reckoning: A Detective Jake Castillo Novel
Paperback
Series: The Detective Jake Castillo Saga
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 14 2026
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Seven months after Blood Ties: Dark Storm, Detective Jake Castillo is trying to keep his life stitched together-new partner dynamics, an on-again/off-again thing with Detective Vanessa Guerra, and the sudden return of his former partner Lissette Hernandez from Chicago. A Manhattan psychotherapist turns up murdered in a high-end apartment, the scene marked by a chilling calling card and a sexual power game that screams repeat offenders. Lissette recognizes echoes of an open case back home, and the trail widens from East Harlem to the Bronx club scene and beyond.
As Jake works a parallel shooting with a by-the-book Bronx detective, threads of gang beefs, private vice, and weaponized intimacy knot into a single hunt: a pair who seduce, control, and annihilate. Meanwhile, crime boss Frank Colon entertains a new ally whose ambitions could redraw the map-and put Jake's family fault lines back under pressure. The case forces Jake to decide what he is when the rules fail: protector, avenger, or something darker. Old loyalties are tested, new ones forged, and everyone learns that obsession has a body count.Also in
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