Author(s): Sandra Brown

Fiction

The story revolves around Burke Basile, a narcotics officer in the NOPD, whoâÂÂs driven by his own guilty conscience to seek revenge for the shooting death of his partner and the acquittal of the man charged with the crime. The target of his vengeance is Pinkie Duvall, a wealthy and powerful crime boss. Basile strikes Pinkie where he knows it will hurt most â by kidnapping his young, beautiful wife, Remy, and hiding her in his fishing camp deep in the swamp. But Duvall is a dangerous man to provoke. He sets his far-reaching into motion, swearing to kill Basile for this outrage. Too late Basile realizes how well-connected Duvall is â even within the police department. Betrayed by his friends, his co-workers, and his own adulterous wife, Burke Basile is a man with nowhere else to run and no one to trust. Moreover, he never bargained on falling in love with Remy.