Ten years ago, Tony Monaco was the heir to a criminal empire.  Now he runs Payback, a mysterious network dedicated to helping others like himself move from the wrong side of the law to the right side.  In return for Tony's help, each member of Payback must agree to bring another criminal to justice. 

Payback features heroes who are former bad boys, compelling and dangerous, still struggling to keep away from the dark side of their natures.  And though each man starts out seeking justice... he ends up finding love.
 

I.W.:
Writing the Payback series was far more challenging than I had initially thought. I've always loved the bad boy, edgy hero, but it's tough to make a guy like that heroic while still leaving him enough "edge" to be, well, bad. For example, the first book in the series, THE ANGEL AND THE OUTLAW, opens when the hero stumbles across the heroine while she's aiming a hunting rifle at the man who killed her brother. Does the hero worry about the heroine committing murder? Nah, he's worried she might miss. Don't let the hero's courtly pose on the book cover fool you (how DO they come up with scenes that bear no resemblance to the story inside??). This guy's as hard-boiled as they come. As I said, he was a challenge. So were the others. By the time I got to the final book of the trilogy, I couldn't resist calling in my old friends from Eagle Squadron to help out the hero. Actually, I often have characters from earlier books show up in later ones, likely because they got more interesting than I'd planned and so wouldn't stay on the shelf when I was done with them.