Six years later

Noah Cutler locked his car and paused at the entrance to Jimbo's. The last time he'd been here he'd been at a party with Randi Alexander. Six years later he was here for another party, aware she would again be here, and more nervous than he'd been since tracking a Great White off the coast of Australia.

If he had a lick of sense he'd have turned down Jeff Nagle's invitation to the party, begging off with an overload of work. But the man was still his ...