“He will be fresh meat here. And he won't have his powers..." Black takes on a new consulting assignment for the LAPD, helping them find the hitman who left a body behind the Los Angeles Theater. Despite Miri's lingering fears about what happened to him during the last murder case he worked on, Black assures her that it's just routine and he won't be doing operational work and nothing can go wrong. Then, on his first night on the job at the Port of Los Angeles, all hell breaks loose and everything changes dramatically. Black wakes up in a nightmare he couldn't have foreseen, with no way out and no idea how he got here. Stripped of his psychic abilities, he can't even call Miri for help or figure out where he is, who took him, or what they want from him. Free, Miri is desperate, working with the police and Black's team to find him. She has even less information than Black... until her Uncle Charles' confession pits her against a much older enemy - the same enemy who could have killed her entire family. Black and Blue is the fifth book in the paranormal-mystery romance series with the outstanding and dangerous psychic detective Quentin Black and his partner, forensic psychologist Miri Fox.