When the police call the slaughter of his mother and brother a home invasion gone bad, Mika doesn't believe it. Because he has no way to prove otherwise, he closes down, refusing to talk about what happened.<br><br>That is until Buck, a bouncer at a local bar Mika visits, convinces Mika to open up to him. When he does, Buck not only learns about the murder, but also that Mika grew up living off the grid until his father died, two years previously, at which point his family moved to the city.<br><br>They begin to bond as they try to figure out the reason behind the murders, which may revolve around the family property in the mountains. All they have to do is prove it, without being killed in the process. Only if they can will they take a chance and move their growing friendship on to something more.

Hunting a Killer

“Now that’s interesting,” Buck said when the first result was a small piece of a map, obviously from a map site, with a marker on it. “Click on it to see if it takes you to the source map.”


Mika did, and ended up on the map site’s page. He scrolled to widen the area, after hitting the ‘satellite view’ button, until they had a good visual of mountains with a couple of towns showing at what they estimated was several miles from the marker.


Mika looked at Buck, asking, “Are you thinking what I am.”


“That there might be a mine there, or at least a place where your great-grandfather thought there was the possibility of finding gold or silver?”


Mika nodded. “So maybe we weren’t too far off base to start with. All this has to do with the location of a vein, or veins of…gold? But why didn’t he, Ian, mine it?”


Chapter 29