Smoothed over synopsis for UG...

I'm giving Underground Guy one last pass then shifting it into ebook format...probably the end of this week. Here's my last pass over the synopsis I'll be using for it --

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Devlin Pope’s life has been a fight to maintain control, but it looks like things have finally leveled out. The company he owns with his brother is doing well. He's able to purge his anger with men who are into the same sort of sex games as him. He’s even at the point where his long-deceased father’s physical abuse has become little more than a hard memory.

But the day before he’s set to return to New York from a business trip to London he’s contacted by the New Jersey State Police. They may have found the remains of his mother, who vanished 22 years ago, and want him to provide a DNA sample to verify the body.

Realizing that his mother didn't run off but was murdered by his father crashes Devlin into chaos. In a desperate attempt to regain control, he fixates on a good-looking guy he sees on the Underground, follows him off the train then kidnaps and sexually assaults him.

It’s not the first time Devlin’s done this, but he’d only attacked men who had crossed him, before. This guy had done nothing but sport a tattoo Devlin liked ... so instead of calming the beast within, his turmoil is increased.

What’s even worse -- Devlin finds out the man he attacked is an undercover cop named Reg. Three men have been raped and murdered in the last few months by a man who resembles Devlin and Reg was acting as a decoy to trap the killer. Now another man is dead thanks to Devlin’s interference and the British media are howling. On top of this, the police think he’s the killer’s accomplice and there is nothing he can say or do to change their minds.

As the evidence against him mounts, the shame he feels for what he did to Reg brings up issues and memories he thought long buried. Mixed in is the confused realization he’s fallen in love with the guy ... despite him being married with four kids and not the least bit interested.

Devlin careens into a brutal re-evaluation of his life even as he does all he can to track down the killer before another man dies ... because it’s looking more and more that thanks to his actions Reg has been marked as the maniac’s next target.

And Devlin would sooner die than let that happen.