Matt Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy who would someday
murder his wife and son . . .
Once Stromsoe was best friends with brilliant, unpredictable Mike
Tavarez. That was before Matt joined the San Diego P.D. and Mike left
Harvard to run La Eme, the brutal Mexican Mafia, before a
vengeance-obsessed Tavarez blew away everything Stromsoe loved, leaving
him physically and emotionally broken.
Years later, Mike Tavarez is in prison for life, controlling his vast
criminal empire from within a maximum security facility. Matt Stromsoe
has rebounded from rock bottom to become a private investigator--and
he's starting to feel something for Frankie Hatfield, the beautiful
local TV weather forecaster he's been hired to protect from a stalker.
But powerful, dangerous people are becoming too interested in
Frankie's remarkable experiments with rain. And bars alone won't keep
Tavarez from his ultimate goal: to make Matt Stromsoe suffer the
unendurable torment of losing everything . . . again.