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 did that for us?” Lou said softly, not quite believing what he was hearing.


“I want you to be safe and we can’t live together if I’m me, I mean…”


“What he means is he loves you and so we’re coming out wherever you are.”


Lou took a deep breath. “You’re okay with this?”


“Mostly. I won’t be able to talk to my best friend any more, or any of my friends, but Dad says you’re a good guy now, so I guess that’s okay. You are, aren’t you?”


“A good guy? Yeah, I’m trying to be.”


The phone went silent for a second, then Walter said, “I guess it’s a go, since she said it was?”


“You know it is. Damn, yeah it is.”


“Thank God. And by the way she’s right, I do love you.”


Lou laughed happily. “I sort of figured, since you wouldn’t lie to your own kid.”


“I know. I love you too. I was just afraid if I said it, well…”


Chapter 19