Jeanette Tolby's life was purring along at an average clip, and it had been for the last five years. There had been few, if any, major disappointments. But conversely, neither had there been any life affirming moments of fulfillment. Her job as station manager for an up and coming rock and roll radio station in Boston was a good one; albeit not exactly what she'd had in mind when she'd graduated from college sixteen years ago. But she was as happy as anyone else she knew with who she was and what she'd accomplished. But all of that was about to change. Suddenly, with the death of her close...

Gina Gurley has a good life. She has a beautiful daughter, a loving husband and a nice home in a small, rural Maryland town where it seems nothing, good or bad, ever happens. Then suddenly, early one April morning her free-lance writer husband is killed in a car wreck chasing a story and their lives are shattered. From that moment forward She and her daughter embark on a roller-coaster ride of bone-numbing fear punctuated with murder, corruption, abuse of the highest power and a terror so absolute that nothing will ever be the same.

Sure, he had his medal of valor and the respect of his fellow officers, but the one thing Lt. Jeff Dunn didn't have was something he'd lost eighteen years ago, the night he'd launched himself over the edge of the Squantee River bridge. He didn't have, nor did he ever expect to regain, his own self respect. In the years following that night, he couldn't forgive himself for not being able to save the boy or, what he considered the most selfish and self-serving fifteen seconds of his life. Indeed, his companion for the last eighteen years "Johnnie Walker" had helped to dull the pain, but still,...