The body lay amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store—a tall, well-built male—dead. Detective J.P. Beaumont’s twenty years on the force has given him sixth sense about people—especially guilty ones. So when he found out the victim—a high school basketball coach with a very pregnant wife—had been lynched, Beaumont suspected this murder was connected with the extremes of love and hatred. Love for the wrong kind of woman...and the hate of those who took justice into their own blood-soaked hands.