Melissa Sanders had it all. With a devoted and successful husband, a darling daughter who brought her joy every day, a gorgeous home in an exclusive neighborhood, life was good until a brutal act of violence stole her husband’s life and changed her life forever.  This was not the first time violence had touched Melissa’s life. Her father, a third-generation police officer, was gunned down in the line of duty, his assailant never apprehended. Powerless as a child to avenge her father’s murder, Melissa, a former cop herself, vowed to do whatever it took to find her husband’s killer and deliver her own style of justice. The Avenger takes the reader on a fast-paced ride as Melissa tracks her prey down a twisted trail into the underbelly of criminal life. From the sleazy hangouts of the big city to the decadent pleasures of casinos on the Gulf Coast, Melissa must surrender to the seamy, seedy life of an outlaw to find the man who killed her husband and make him pay for his crime.

The heir apparent to one of the most successful cotton empires in the South, Bill Wilson grew up with a father too busy expanding the family business and a mother who could not control him. Given neither discipline nor direction, Bill followed his own self-indulgent impulses, recklessly careening through life in the fast lane, the pursuit of pleasure his only talent. By the time he lands in his thirties, Bill has earned a reputation as a free-wheeling, high roller who always gets what he wants. Until he meets the cool, confident, and captivating Judy Freeman. Intelligent and independent, Judy refuses Bill’s advances, which only serves to fuel his desire. He sets about redefining his playboy image, wooing her with newly minted integrity and old-fashioned romance, demonstrating his respect and fidelity by promising to bring her into Wilson Industries and the Wilson family.