Caught up in a crazy operation, Chase, a young man rejected by his father, tries to earn his father’s love while experiencing the utter terror involved in executing his part in it.

Chase Everett Vandette is that odd son...that different son...the not-like-his-two-brothers son, the physically slight, but with-much-spunk son. Harsh rejection and forced homeless, Chase wants a normal life with the one thing his only remaining parent, Justin Vandette, a hard boiled career Navy submarine captain, can’t seem to give him, love. Justin feels his callow, almost pretty son is nothing like his two very masculine brothers. Chase all but gives up. However, when his older brother is murdered, Chase learns of a secret operation launched by his father that involves a drug kingpin. Unknown to his father, Chase inserts himself into his father’s operation that’s full of danger and intrigue. Not having the usual grit of the ‘usual hero’ he uses his wit. Through all this, Chase isn’t looking for romance, and doesn’t even think it is possible. As it sometimes happens, romance finds him. He falls hard for an enigmatic British man, Ian McGregor. Love turns to near hate with a seemingly heart wrenching, horrible betrayal by the Brit. Chase returns home devastated, but safe. A winter nor’easter seems to turn his things for the better in a huge, more dramatic and very pleasant way.