Grip, Paperback

Detective Jamie Bell finds herself in another pickle, after moving back home and rebuilding her life and reconnecting with her family someone out of past dramatically re-enters her life (Bryce Hix) a man she hasn't seen in nearly 20 years. His return causes great pain and friction between her father and brother but she has an emotional attachment with Bryce who now is a bitter and angry man fat from the shy wide eyed young man she knew some 20 years ago at the Olympic trials with her brother. Jaime feels forever in Bryce's debt because of an incident that happened at the trials a secret between the two of them. Jaimie stands alone against her own police force for circumstantial charges on Bryce while he tries to cope with his ailing mother at a cancer research hospital.