Description:

The second full length novel featuring an agent from theBureau ofAmericanDefense, though this time she's a woman who's after a home-grown terrorist. Nathan Drake is a typical overachiever, graduating high school at seventeen and joining the Army to help support his ailing mother and twin brother. When his brother Jamie is arrested for drug charges, Nathan knows the stress would kill their mother—so he makes a deal with his brother. He'll serve the eighteen-month sentence provided Jamie promises to clean up his act. But all doesn't go as planned. Nathan ends up in a fight that results with his having to serve the entire six-year sentence. A year later, his mother succumbs to her cancer and dies. Three days before his release, Jamie is killed by someone from his drug-dealing past. His life in shambles, his family gone, Nathan has no reason to live. Donning the guise of a ?ghost,? he systematically begins assassinating every criminal who had a part in his brother's death.

Meanwhile, Terri Mitchell is on loan to the New Orleans police department, trying to bust a drug ring that is allegedly funding terrorism. But when members of that ring begin having bizarre accidents, she becomes suspicious, especially when she hears rumors of a ghost. She doesn't believe in the paranormal, but an eerie encounter with the ghost leaves her shaken. Is he really a spirit conjured up from the depths of the bayou, or is a man set on a course of vengeance? Her search for answers puts both her life and her heart at risk, and she soon learns unexpected lessons about life, love, and justice.