A vortex of evil, passion, suspense and beautiful writing.

"One of the most moving and suspenseful books I had read in years."

Brian Withers, a college professor, is drawn into a drug ring where he works for the FBI. He finds himself entangled in plots that involve murder, boat explosions, plane destructions and a psychopathic hired killer. Brian and his wife Zannah try to get free from this web of deception and greed but continue to be drawn farther into the scheme.

Do not read the first line of this book until you have cleared your calendar for the next three days.

"Mangham's talent grows stronger with each book he writes." -- Jeff Minick, Smoky Mountain News Suspense, action, murder, romance, mystery. Different than anything you've ever read. A young man's nude body is found in a dumpster; it has a finger freshly amputated. A beautiful well-dressed woman lives in a cave. A lawyer in Florida hauls an old woman's body in the back of his truck too long. A 24-year-old Adonis has the mind of a four-year-old...but remembers too well. A man jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge onto the windshield of the car of the one man in the world who can least endure the trauma. A trucker in New England barely misses death by an avalanche of deer. A horse rancher in Montana returns home to find his wife dead. The drug trade from South America filters into a mountain village in North Carolina. A man is killed by a used bullet. The Death Card keeps coming in Tarot. Four men from four seof the country each experience a life-changing tragedy. They pack up and leave, looking for a new beginning...and find one another in a swirling microcosm of emotions. What effect does each have on the other and those around him? And each has something left undone.

"One of the most moving and suspenseful books I had read in years."

A vortex of evil, passion, suspense and beautiful writing.