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

Walter smiled slightly. “You’ve noticed, huh?”


“Yeah. So you decided to do the right thing and adopt her.”


“It wasn’t a hard choice once I met her. She was five by then and a real fire-cracker. It took a lot of doing, being that I’m gay and single, but I managed to wrangle it with the help of my boss at the time, who pulled a few strings, or blackmailed a few people. I never did figure out which. Anyway, now I have Robin.”


“For a pretty young lady. And how did we get onto me and my life?”


“Something about two point five kids, I think,” Carlo replied with a bit of a grin.


“And you trying to avoid what we were really talking about.”


Chapter 7