End of the Race" steals readers away to the shores of Traverse Bay, Michigan. Olympic swimming hopeful, Annika Wolfson is training for the China Olympic team when Brian, her husband and coach, takes off on a sailing trip and vanishes. Annika, distraught, bewildered and still grieving a miscarriage, searches past and present for an explanation. The Olympic training schedule staring from the wall only magnifies his absence. Why would Brian abandon her, their six year old daughter, and the race for the Gold that was their life? Is he alive?