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J.D. Towne, pro football's greatest quarterback and America's biggest celebrity, is hiding a major secret: He is a serial abuser of women. Towne, who has grown up with a deep sense of entitlement, thinks he can get away with anything. But Jody Langley, one of the women he abuses, musters the courage to try to take him down. She contacts Mike Daggett, the sports columnist at the Los Angeles Tribune, and Daggett is prepared to break the biggest story in years. Until Ms. Langley is kidnapped, and Daggett is told if he writes the story, she will be killed. Now Daggett has to wrestle with his conscience. Does he write the story and save all the women Towne continues to abuse, or does he hold off to save Jody's life? This is the ultimate portrait of a great athlete, from his days as a Pop Warner and high school and college star in Texas, to his stunning performance in the NFL. Along the way, you find out what makes him tick and why women can't resist him. And why he, in turn, continues to risk his career and multi-million dollar contract to physically abuse them.

J.D. Towne is not only football's greatest quarterback, he is the biggest American sports celebrity since Michael Jordan. His movie star handsome face is everywhere, on television, on billboards, on cereal boxes. Literally everywhere. He is also hiding a secret -- a big secret: He is a serial abuser of women. Towne, like so many of today's athletes, has grown up with a deep sense of entitlement. He think he doesn't have to live by the same rules as everyone else. Jody Langley, one of the women he abused, thinks differently. She musters the courage to try to take him down. She contacts Mike Daggett, the sports columnist at the Los Angeles Tribune, and Daggett is prepared to break the biggest story in years. Until Ms. Langley is kidnapped and Daggett is told if he writes the story, she will be killed. Now Daggett has to wrestle with his conscience. Does he write the story and save all the women Towne continues to abuse, or does he hold off to save Jody's life? This is the ultimate portrait of a great athlete, from his days as a Pop Warner star in Texas to his stunning, Super Bowl-winning performances in the NFL. Along the way, you find out what makes him tick and why women can't resist him. And why he, in turn, continues to risk his career and multi-million dollar contract to physically abuse them.

Steve Bisheff has been one of Southern California's most popular sports writers and authors for the past four decades. An award winning columnist, he wrote for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, the San Diego Evening Tribune and the Orange County Register. He has covered every major sporting event in the country, from the World Series to the Olympics, from the Final Four to the NBA Finals, including no less than 25 Super Bowls. He was inducted into the USC Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012 as a media member. Bisheff has written six books, including the critically-acclaimed John Wooden: An American Treasure and Always Compete, the story of Pete Carroll's tenure at USC. He and his wife, Marsha, live in Irvine, CA. This is his first novel.