He refused to face his past...so it came crashing into his present.
Can be read as a standalone. HEA. Second Chance.While exposing a crack cocaine epidemic, LA Times investigative reporter Jesse McMillan scores the biggest story of his career. An elusive Mexican mafia kingpin agrees to talk-but the price Jesse must pay is greater than he ever imagined.
When Jesse reunites with Clare, a girlfriend from the past he has dreamed about, but never thought he’d see again, the increasingly dangerous investigation puts his budding romance in jeopardy. The more Jesse digs, the more disturbing and potentially deadly connections emerge between his childhood home in the Canal Zone, Panama and the Mexican mafia. Can Jesse and Clare survive the deadly secrets he uncovers about their past? Will he live to write the article?