Book 2- To Take Up The Sword - projected length 15,000 to 20,000 words
After the not guilty verdict of Ashton Smythe is annouced, Gabriel Spiller takes time away from the FBI. Having failed in his mission to avenge his lost lover, Serena, he returns to Alabama in search of the missing diamonds that will reopen the investigation, to grieve, and to lay low from the death threats he's been getting since Smythe went free.
Almost two years after her sister's death, Leannan O'Neal feels the loss of Serena more now than ever. A secret meeting between them before she died left Lea with an ugly figurine and nothing but questions. Hang up calls at work, warnings and plague her until she comes home from her job as a schoolteacher to find her house trashed. She remembers the card Serena gave her. "If you find yourself in trouble, go to him and only him." were the last words her sister spoke to her. She grabs her purse and goes into the wind in search of Gabriel, Serena's 'Angel', but how long can he keep her alive and is the cost more than her life.