When a windfall on Wall Street gave ex-navy SEAL Cody Sargent a small fortune, he quit his job, bought a forty-five foot sloop, and sailed away to the tropics. Now he spends winters cruising the Caribbean, letting the warm sunlight and salt air wash his mind clean of the five years of death and killing he endured in cold, arid Afghanistan. It is October, and the tropical rain and humidly of the hurricane season have faded. The dry, sunny breezes of the new winter have taken over. Cody Sargent, beginning another winter of cruising the windward islands, sails into Admiralty Bay on the island of...

When the Branch Manager of Winston & Company's southeastern Pennsylvania office is killed in a freak accident, Cody Sargent is transferred from the New York office to replace him. Cody is reluctant to leave the excitement of Wall Street, but recognizes his new assignment is an opportunity to gain the management experience that will eventually bring him back to Manhattan with a higher position in the financial industry The job in Pennsylvania begins promisingly enough, but Cody soon realizes little is what he's been led to believe it is. There is wide suspicion that the previous manager's...