Publisher's Synopsis
December 1983- A 13 year old girl escapes the cruel madam who has been selling her for sex, and will unknowingly become the catalyst in a chain of events that will span halfway around the globe. Meanwhile four young sailors will stand against one in the name of vigilante justice, committing an unspeakable act which will unwittingly bind them to one another for the rest of their lives.OCTOBER 2011- Now full-grown, one of the four is a high powered attorney in Chicago, who is as ruthless as he is handsome. One is a baker and devoted family man in St. Louis, who has everything he ever wanted in life. A third is an illegal underground fighter who thrives on pain and misery, both his and his opponents, and whose only address is the local county jail. The fourth, a police officer in Minnesota, has dedicated his life to serving and protecting the innocent. The lives they have built for themselves are about to come tumbling down, like the fabled walls of Jericho.It has been nearly thirty years since that fateful night onboard the USS Texas, and the events that unfolded in that dark, oil-stained engine room so long ago are about to return with a vengeance unlike anything they could have ever imagined, even in their worst nightmares.Grant Mason has spent most of his adult life pursuing these four men, but when he meets Claire DeAngelo, a woman with a past as tragic as his own, she awakens in him, for the very first time, the idea that maybe just maybe forgiveness is possible, so that they can build a loving life together, if only the past will stay buried.
