When twenty-one-year-old Camila Morales is found stabbed to death on Lake Worth Beach, Detective Robert Roan draws the case that will test everything he knows about grief, instinct, and the cost of justice. Paired with Detective Daniel Evans-a methodical investigator trying to balance the demands of the job with his family waiting at home-Roan follows a thread from neon-lit massage parlors to gated Palm Beach mansions. As more bodies surface and witnesses vanish, the investigation becomes a race against a killer who leaves surgical precision in his wake. Every lead comes with a price. Every answer demands sacrifice. And in the suffocating Florida heat, where loyalty fractures under pressure and trust is a fatal mistake, two detectives risk their careers, their families, and their lives to deliver justice for women the world has forgotten. A compulsively readable crime novel with relentless pacing and atmospheric tension, Crimson Sand is a gripping procedural about the price of truth in a world where speaking up can get you killed. When twenty-one-year-old Camila Morales is found stabbed to death on Lake Worth Beach, Detective Robert Roan draws the case that will test everything he knows about grief, instinct, and the cost of justice. Paired with Detective Daniel Evans—a methodical investigator trying to balance the demands of the job with his family waiting at home—Roan follows a thread from neon-lit massage parlors to gated Palm Beach mansions. As more bodies surface and witnesses vanish, the investigation becomes a race against a killer who leaves surgical precision in his wake. Every lead comes with a price. Every answer demands sacrifice. And in the suffocating Florida heat, where loyalty fractures under pressure and trust is a fatal mistake, two detectives risk their careers, their families, and their lives to deliver justice for women the world has forgotten. A compulsively readable crime novel with relentless pacing and atmospheric tension, Crimson Sand is a gripping procedural about the price of truth in a world where speaking up can get you killed. A BODY IN THE SAND. A CITY THAT HIDES ITS SINS. A DETECTIVE AS RELENTLESS AS A HURRICANE. At midnight on a humid South Florida beach, twenty-one-year-old Camila Morales is found half-buried in the dunes, eyes open to the moon, blood soaking into the sand. She wasn't the first girl in this city to dream of a better life — but someone made sure she never got it. Detective Robert Roan knows violence, the way it twists through a place long before it reaches the surface. With a new partner at his side and a department already stretched thin, Roan digs into Camila's final night — the bar lights, the whispered promises, the wrong man watching. The deeper Roan goes, the darker Lake Worth Beach becomes: a brother drowning in faith and fury, a family frayed by poverty and shame, a town where ambition turns to hunger, and hunger turns to blood. When another young woman turns up dead, Roan realizes this isn't one murder — it's the start of a pattern. To catch a killer, Roan must follow the darkness — and hope it doesn't claim him too. Chris Binnix is a South Florida-based writer who grew up on the sun-bleached streets that shape the world of his fiction. With more than twenty years spent in marketing, training, and education, he brings a sharp eye for detail and atmosphere to his debut novel, Crimson Sand. A lifelong admirer of noir detective stories, true crime, and tightly wound thrillers, Binnix writes from a place where the heat, humidity, and human complexity of South Florida converge. When he isn't writing, he enjoys golfing and spending time with his family.