Nihil Aeternum

Tommy Donagan was a police officer and a damned good one. Until he realized that most of the perps he picked up were released because the prisons were just too crowded to make the effort. It changed him. He was no longer the idealist cop that wanted to do good, but someone filled with rage boiling just under the surface. One night, that surface broke. He put a kid in ICU and rode a desk with IA investigating the incident. That didn't work for Tommy so he turned in his badge and gun and waved goodbye to the precinct he'd called home. He chose to be a private investigator instead. After all, if he wasn't responsible for the conviction, the rules could be bent when necessary. Enter the Whittaker family. They hire Tommy to find a small silver apple that was stolen from the family. They had a line on the apple, thinking they could retrieve it without outside help, but they failed and now they need Tommy to retrieve it. Tommy finds himself involved in something much bigger than a stolen property case when he discovers the apple is more than just a trinket and that there is more than one interested party involved in the theft. Between a host of suspects and a beautiful femme fatale in the form of Lily Whittaker, Tommy begins to believe he's in over his head. The question is, can Tommy find the pieces in time or will he die trying to prevent the rise of evil?