Life for Lou Travis changed drastically when, as Carlo Farro, he turned state's evidence on the two mobsters he worked for. He didn't know, when he was put into the WITSEC program, that he would end up falling in love with the marshal tasked with protecting him.<br><br>Walter Brooks certainly didn't expect love to come into his life in the form of a small-time drug trafficker. But it did. Now, under the name Wayne Bourke, he, his adopted daughter Rae, and Lou own a protection business -- and have for the last seventeen years.<br><br>Suddenly their lives change when Regotti, one of the mobsters Lou testified against, is released from prison. The man wants Lou dead. Can Lou, Wayne, and Rae stop him from finding them and putting his deadly plan into motion?

Under the Radar

“You might be, but not him.” She thumbed toward Lou. “He’d be heading after them guns blazing, if he could.”


Lou cocked an eyebrow. “Are you saying I’m a hot-head?”


Rae laughed. “If the shoe fits…” Then she sobered, going over to sit on the edge of the desk. “Did the cameras pick up anything?”


“At first glance, only the intruder’s back,” Lou said. “He knew they were there.”


She nodded. “I take it he didn’t make it into either office.”


“He tried,” Wayne replied. “Our feeling is, when he couldn’t, he took out his frustration on the reception area.”


“Or he was leaving you a message. Don’t move. I’ll be right back.” She was, with the broken laptop in hand. Setting it on Lou’s desk, she turned it over and expertly removed the hard drive.”


“Just what are you going to do with that?” Wayne asked.


“As if you didn’t know.” She went to the storage closet next to Lou’s file cabinets, coming back with another laptop exactly like the one that had been damaged. “Move it, Pop.”


Chapter 2