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Pier Pressure
Paperback
Publisher: Central Avenue Press
Published: Dec 18 2025
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
On Central Avenue, respectability is a performance - and everyone knows their lines.
Robert Kelly has spent his career keeping his head down and his clients out of the papers. His small St. Petersburg law practice survives on quiet deals, careful wording, and the unspoken understanding that some truths are better left alone. But when a routine case brushes up against the city's polished waterfront and the money behind it, Kelly finds himself pulled into a current he can't control.
As old alliances surface and new pressures mount, the lines between legality and morality begin to blur. Deals are made in back rooms, reputations are traded like currency, and the past proves far less buried than it appears. In a city built on sunshine and reflection, Kelly learns that standing still can be just as dangerous as moving forward.
Set against the fading neon and salt-air calm of Florida's Gulf Coast, Pier Pressure is a taut, atmospheric noir about ambition, compromise, and the quiet cost of staying respectable when everything around you is sinking.
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