On Friday, Nick Grant is an ordinary guy with a good job, a wife he loves, and an adorable eight-year-old son. On Saturday, his wife is dead, his son is in critical condition, and there is an unidentified body in the basement.

Wracked with torment and guilt, he retreats to a rental house he owns in “The Bottoms,” a crime-ridden slum in Columbus, Ohio, where he falls into a life of drugs and alcohol.

An accidental encounter with a young woman, who shares a deadly secret, sucks him into a vortex of criminal activity where he becomes an unwitting player in a dangerous game of chance in a battle between the underworld and law enforcement at the highest levels.

What follows is an intricate tale of greed, corruption, deception, and murder.

Also available in paperback, $10.95. 978-0-9910144-6-0