To understand the future, you must visit the past... Ten years earlier... Jillian Atford finds herself in an unthinkable predicament. Unable to resist the arms of an older man, a handsome Philadelphia cop no less, Jillian is caught in a reality she chooses not to accept...the gleaming gold band on Calvin Kyle's ring finger. Lyla Kyle discovers the body of her mother, dead on the floor from an apparent suicide. Blaming the hands of her philandering father, Lyla wastes no time seeking revenge. In a heroic attempt to save a colleague from his burning home, Detective Jason Brighthouse Sr. ends up in the wrong place at the right time. When neither makes it out alive, Brighthouse's son, Jason Jr., can only harp on their last words, a bitter argument. In despair he takes a gun to his head...his father's gun. Three lives. Three deaths. One story that will entwine their futures forever through consequences, revenge, and obsession. Blood in the Past: an introductory novella to the Blood for Blood Series. The first full-length novel in the series, Blood in the Paint, is available now.