Jen Stonebreaker hasn’t entered into a big-wave surfing competition since witnessing her husband’s tragic death twenty-five years ago at the Monsters of the Mavericks. Now, Jen is ready to tackle those same monsters with her twin sons, Casey and Brock, who have become competitive surfers in a perilous sport.When he’s not riding waves, Casey Stonebreaker spends his days helping with the family restaurant ― catching fish in the morning and bartending at night. Casey’s willingness to expose illegal poachers on his popular social media platforms puts him on a collision course with a crime syndicate eager to destroy anyone threatening their business.Outspoken Brock Stonebreaker couldn’t be more different from his twin. The founder of Breath of Life, a church and rescue mission that assists with natural disasters that no one else will touch, Brock has lived an adventurous and sometimes violent life. Not everyone appreciates Brock’s work, and threats swirl around him.As the big-wave contest draws closer, a huge, late-fall swell is headed toward the Pacific coastline. Jen’s fears gnaw at her ― fear for herself, for her sons, for what this competition will mean for the rest of her life.
T. Jefferson Parker
From the author of "Laguna Heat" and "Summer of Fear" comes an intense, masterful novel of murder and revenge on California's Gold Coast--a page-turning thriller with a deep emotional undercurrent about love, loss, and the need to make things right.Amazon.com ReviewWhen a woman is mistakenly assassinated by a sniper from a white supremacist militia, her death brings together her FBI agent fiancee and her journalist lover, John Menden. The two team up to exact revenge by destroying the militia group, known as the Freedom Ring, with Menden infiltrating the group's Liberty Ridge compound. When he falls in love with the commander's daughter the plot becomes tautly complicated. In a scenario grounded in events on the right-wing fringes of U.S. society, Parker engineers a grandly violent climax to assuage all Menden's macho hatred.