The spirit of a missing editor haunts the newsroom, helping to solve a mystery.
Crime-fighting editor Zelda Machinko disappeared in 1956 leaving only a shoe as a clue that she was nabbed by gangsters. As her spirit reveals her tale, the people and places of the past intertwine with the passions and problems of the present. The gritty gangssters of Zelda's world in the 1950s collide with the greedy government graft in the Chicago suburbs of the 1980s.
Jason Chase, a man filled with personal demons, only wanted to finish his manuscript. But all his carefully laid plans disappear when a stranger showed up at his front door claiming to be his long-lost father.
In the waning days of World War II, a man lies injured in a London hospital, shrouded in mystery and confusion. He is an American serviceman, stripped of his identity and memories, save for the name John, and plagued by vivid visions of battles that
Book 2 of The Commander and the Chief series finds the Chief "on the warpath" and "counting coup" with her enemies on both sides of the ocean. Meanwhile, she fights an indictment and risks losing her latest love, the Commander, as well as unleashing