Nothing to Live for

His resolve bolstered by scotch whiskey and grief from the three months he’s been kept from seeing his two young daughters by a wife who left him for a rich lawyer, Cade’s plan to put an end to his torment by walking off the end of a pier late one night on the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, and being washed out to sea is derailed at the last second when he hears the agonized cry of a woman whose shadowy shape he can barely make out in the gloom. It’s the sweetest voice he’s ever heard, the woman obviously in desperate trouble needing help, an irresistible lure, compelling him down off the pier’s railing. Never quite able to catch up with her, he follows her up the beach to a big house where from outside in the shadows, through open curtains, he watches a disturbing scene unfold in the master bedroom suite. A brute of a man violently knocks around a petite woman Cade believes to be the man’s wife. Leaving the woman sprawled across the bed, minutes later the man appears in an upstairs bedroom and has sex with a beautiful young blonde. Losing the woman he’d followed, over the next few days Cade tries to find and solve the mystery of who she is so he can help her, feeling a strong attraction to her, while at the same time getting increasingly involved with a Marilyn-Monroe look-a-like who wants to help him. At the same time, he’s haunted by memories of the fun things he did with his daughters and passionate times with his wife in the early days of their relationship.

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