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Mirage
Hardcover
Series: A Cash & Carrie Adventure, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781952224454
Publisher: Kallisto Gaia Press
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With Mirage, Burnett delivers his most ambitious and explosive work yet-a border-crime thriller driven by trauma, vengeance, corruption, and the desperate longing for justice in a world built on exploitation. Mirage is a gritty crime thriller set in South Texas, where the desert sun burns the truth into the earth and the shadows hide what official reports never dare to tell. The story plunges readers into the seedy and violent underworld of human smuggling, cartel influence, corrupt government officials, and the hidden systems that allow exploitation to thrive across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Burnett's world is populated by people who aren't heroes-they're survivors. Damaged. Driven. Dangerous. The heart of the story beats within two unforgettable characters whose unlikely partnership creates a narrative as explosive as it is emotionally deep.
Carrie James has spent her life outrunning demons she never asked for. Traumatized by years of psychological and physical abuse-pain that she blames on her philandering father-Carrie carries scars far deeper than the ones visible to the world. Driven by rage, shaped by trauma, and fueled by the burning need for vengeance, she becomes Bee County's first female deputy sheriff. But Carrie doesn't enter law enforcement for justice in the traditional sense. She enters it to expose the truth. To make wrong people hurt. To find answers about the death of her closest childhood friend, Carlos-a tragedy tied to a cross-border smuggling operation that reeks of deception and betrayal. What Carrie uncovers is far worse!
Kevin Cash-often known by his street name DJ Cash-is a hustler with ambition, a man who has always lived one step to the left of the law. When he infiltrates a produce company with cartel ties, he's seeking money, access, and the illicit adrenaline rush that comes with playing both sides. But Cash isn't one-dimensional; he's funny, flawed, reckless, charming, and desperate for validation.
His world becomes further entangled when he falls for a fellow probation officer-and gets ensnared by the dangerously unstable daughter of a trafficking-linked business owner. His choices blur the line between survival and self-destruction, and Burnett paints his spiral with nuance, humor, and tragedy.
Carrie and Cash shouldn't work together. They don't trust each other. They don't even like each other. Their motivations clash-one fueled by revenge, one by profit. Yet in the world Burnett builds, these two broken souls find themselves bound by the same enemy, the same corruption, and the same suffocating system.
Both must go undercover. Both must bend-or break-the law. Both must decide what justice really means when the institutions designed to uphold it are rotting from the inside.
Their missions diverge. Their fates collide. Their choices ignite a storm.
Mirage is a great choice for fans of Don Winslow, Stieg Larson, Tana French, Cormac McCarthy, and Gillian Flynn
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