Phil Osgood has it all. The wonderful wife, the fabulous kids, the lucrative career, He really only has one problem: he's bored. Nobody gets it. Quietly, Phil steps out of his lane and moonlights with a local detective. Its good fun and a good compromise. What starts as a diversion turns into a hunt for missing friends. When the hunt leads to bodies and Phil is implicated, the diversion gets personal - and deadly. For the first time, Phil isn't sure he's going to win. And if he loses, he loses everything.

Steve Powell is a retired bond trader. He has degrees in finance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent the first half of his career at Bankers Trust Company in New York and London. In 1994 he founded his own firm, Smith Point Investments, which he ran for fifteen years. Steve is an avid runner and a struggling but optimistic golfer. He is married with four grown sons and lives in Connecticut where he writes.