FBI agent Jack Rhodes and Doctor V.C. Coldwater team up to solve a murder involving treason, secret government research, and the Uzbekistani black market. ***** Commander Jack Rhodes was kicked out of the Navy SEALs after a mission went wrong, but he continues to serve the public as an agent of the FBI. After a woman is murdered, he's forced to team up with the unconventional and flagrantly disrespectful Doctor V.C. Coldwater. What looks like a simple case turns out to extend deep into government research, nuclear fission, and the global criminal underworld. Jack's forced to rely on a woman he thought he'd despise, because in a case this complicated, she's the only person he can trust. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]

An early winter blizzard, a dark evening and a wounded man. That was where it all started. Grace takes that phantom in on that tempestuous night, not knowing that the man dying at her doorstep was anything but a wounded passerby. And soon, their roles as a healer and a sufferer interchange, as does their lives_ a storm in the wake of it all, waiting to ruin them all in turn.