Unbelievable was the word for her. Samantha Vine was unbelievably beautiful. It was unbelievable that sheтАЩd married me. Even more unbelievable that she was gone . . .
Samantha died too soon. Abe BeckhamтАЩs new wife has helped him through the loss, but some say it was a step back to marry Angelina, a love from AbeтАЩs past. Abe doesnтАЩt want to hear it, and through the ups and downs, heтАЩs even managed to remain a star prosecutor at the Miami State AttorneyтАЩs Office.
Then everything goes wrong. ┬аA womanтАЩs body is discovered dumped in the Everglades, and Abe is called upon to monitor the investigation. The FBI is tracking a killer in South Florida they call тАЬCutterтАЭ because his brutal methods harken back to FloridaтАЩs dark past, when machete-wielding men cut sugarcane by hand in the blazing sun.
But when the feds discover that Abe had a brief encounter with the victim after SamanthaтАЩs death, and when Angelina goes missing, the respected attorney finds himself under fire. Suspicion surrounds him. His closest friends, family, professional colleagues, and the media no longer trust his motives. Was Angelina right? Was their marriage not what theyтАЩd hoped for because he loved Samantha too much? Or was there another woman . . . and a husband with a dark side who simply wanted his new wife gone?
James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author with more than thirty books to his credit, including those in his acclaimed series featuring Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck, and is the winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. He is also a trial lawyer and teaches law and literature at the University of Miami School of Law. He lives and writes in South Florida.