Derailed Summary

     For Charles Schine, it began as a quiet, ordinary day with a simple commute to work...until he meets the seductive, mysterious Lucinda Harris-an encounter that will irrevocably wreck his life. This is a highly charged, suspenseful tale of murder, betrayal, and revenge. This new thriller features rich characterizations and a scintillating plot that builds to an explosive climax sure to stun readers.

Derailed Excerpt

    An expanse of thigh – that’s all at first.
    But not just any thigh. A thigh taut, smooth, and toned, a thigh that had obviously spent some time on the treadmill, sheathed by a fashionably short skirt made even shorter by the position of the legs. Casually crossed at the knees. All in all, a skirt length that he’d have to say fell somewhere between sexiness and sluttiness, not exactly one or the other, therefore both.
    This is what Charles saw when he looked up.
    He could just make out a black high-heeled pump
 jutting out into the aisle, barely swinging with the motion of the train. He was directly facing her, his seat backward to the city-bound direction of the train car. But she was blocked by the front page of The New York Times, and even if she wasn’t blocked by the day’s alarming if familiar headline – MID-EAST BURNING – he hadn’t yet looked up toward her face, only peripherally. Instead he was focusing 
on that thigh and hoping against hope she wouldn’t turn out to be beautiful.
    She was.
    He’d been debating his next move: whether to turn
 back to his sports stats, for instance, whether to stare out the grime-streaked window, or scan the bank and airline ads lining each side of the car, when he simply threw caution to the wind and peeked.