The story takes place in one of the most breathtakingly beautiful areas of America, the Washington, D.C. Beltway, a bountiful place where history is everywhere. A land teeming with marshes, bald eagles, deer, foxes, bunnies, a spectacular waterway paradise and wildlife adventureland, whose human occupants are looking for power and ways to get it while trying to navigate the human appetites of lust, love and greed without being drowned by their enemies in the Beltway swamps.

Below the Beltway introduces readers to elite personal coach Alex Gantry, who leaves the glitter of Hollywood for the complexities of the D.C. area in an attempt to escape the struggling grip of a suffocating relationship.

With leading man looks, Brian Marks is not your typical A-type personality and he isn’t used to losing. Marks refusing to let go sets up a dynamic that pulls in everyone around Alex.

Alex plotted her West Coast escape with Berkley Banks, her best friend. She is one of the hottest rising African American entrepreneurs in the Beltway, on every Washington, D.C. best-dressed list, and one of the most eligible bachelorettes.

Berkley introduces Alex to the somewhat younger and somewhat married environmentalist T.J. Gale.

Insults fly, as do sparks.

This is only the first layer of a story that involves bodyguards, innocents, and a cast of powerful characters that collide in a high-stakes game of wills.

As heat turns to emotion pasts haunt, secrets threaten and the bucolic Beltway gives way to a bedlam of unfettered intrigue and desire.