Joe Hunter uses the skills he perfected with the CIA and in Special Ops to solve problems. But his sojourn in Florida is recreational… until a beautiful, desperate woman walks into his life. Kate Piers wants Hunter to help her find her missing sister. But there are several things Hunter doesn’t know…Like the fact that the sister crossed a very bad man — a millionaire sadist who likes doing the wetwork himself. Or that the maniac has serious connections to the underworld… and runs a private army with enough firepower to blow a gaping hole through the heart of Texas.When a violent encounter with a pair of twin killers in the Kentucky hills results in Kate’s capture, Hunter realizes there’ll be no backing down, no matter how badly the odds are stacked against him. There’s a debt to be repaid and vengeance to be had… and when his scorched earth campaign is over, there won’t be anything left to burn.