A Neon Palms Motel Short Story
 
Private investigator Frank Malone has been watching the mysterious Dolores Vale's monthly visits to Room 9 at the Neon Palms Motel, following her for a client who claims she's his cheating wife. But when Dolores confronts Frank in his surveillance room, she knows more about his dark past than any stranger should—including the truth about his disgraced exit from the police force and the serial killer partner he could never expose. In this sultry supernatural tale of guilt and redemption, Frank discovers that some confessions can only be heard by the dead, and that justice sometimes comes from the most unexpected sources in a place where reality bends like heat rising from Southern asphalt.