The year is 1972 when retired U.S army major Billy White is hunted by a notorious Mexican bounty hunter known as La Sombra - the shadow.

In search for a better life, Billy retires to a quiet seaside village in Mexico. He marries a local senora, Trina Marone and they open a beach resort. However, Billy and his U.S colonel friend, Jim Patterson carry a dark secret and a shadowy past. To protect his family, Billy is forced to make a decision. But events begin to escalate bringing the two families to the brink.

His son Blythe Marone moves to San Diego for a better education and meets Sara, the colonel's daughter. When love takes hold it proves fatal. On honeymoon in Mexico a kidnapping sends a village into turmoil and lives will never be the same again. Deceived by their fathers all their lives, In Power There's Silence reveals the life of a lawyer son and his search for truth, and his wife caught between betrayal and deception left to pick up the pieces. Set in the rough streets of San Diego to the mansions of Long Beach and hidden tropical towns of Mexico, a wild adventure unfolds and a dark journey for ultimate survival begins.

Approximately 160,000 words.