The Wrath of Stanek

Publisher Marketing: Having 'one more for the road' rips Joe Stanek from an aimless existence and catapults him headlong into a living nightmare. He wakes up the next morning only vaguely aware of the previous night with no idea why he's in jail. He's accused of killing the Mayor's daughter, and after a quick and dirty trial, a mountain of circumstantial evidence convinces him, and a jury, that he must have done it. Fifteen years later, after a constant battle to stay alive, DNA testing proves that Stanek is innocent, and he's released from Marquette Branch Prison. Now, all he wants is to be left alone, to try to regain some semblance of self-esteem, but that's easier said than done. The first time he meets Susan Elliott, she threatens to kill him if he comes near either of her daughters. The second time, she gives him a black eye! Karl Zarnhof, local czar, wants him dead and Stanek has no idea why. Or why four Aryan Brotherhood thugs are looking for him. The climate between Stanek and Susan begins to thaw when, in separate incidents, he rescues each of the daughters from danger. They are on the verge of realizing they are kindred souls when all three Elliotts go missing. Susan, Julie and Cassie Elliott have become Stanek's world, and he vows to get them back alive regardless of what it may cost him. And the only way he knows to do that is to once more become the lethal creature spawned in the squalid depths of solitary confinement.