The book begins with Brooke Sullivan starting her new job as a nurse practitioner in a maximum security prison. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates. a b c " 'El Recluso' Series Trailer Video: Telemundo International Studios Launches New Production At NATPE 2018".

The story goes back and forth from 10 yrs past to the present, and repeats that cycle throughout the book as details and conversations emerge. Brooke is a nurse practitioner who is desperate for work and can only find a job in a all men’s penitentiary, the exact same one where Brandon is. And they certainly don’t know that Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart—the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Shane has always claimed he was innocent and is now concerned the real killer will come after Brooke once again. But that killer is not the only psycho there, so Till has to put up with another inmate who wants to kill the guy whose cover identity he took, as well as a doctor who wants him out of the way for reasons of his own.

As sometimes happens in these types of situations, one of Max's arents, his father, fees guilt about the abduction, as he let Max go outside when he wasn't being watched by either parent.

There's no WAY Brooke simply recanting her testimony gets this man out of prison TEN YEARS after conviction? Tavares, the leader of the gang that leads the prison, assigns Dante control of the courtyard, replacing La Foca.Not just to accept some fairly implausible things, but because our protagonist Brooke also seems to not possess a brain. In so many of these books we have characters who are portrayed as otherwise clever or competent, but who make dumb decisions simply to help the plot along. Not just the bonkers insane mother avenging her (murderous and terrible) son for “wrongs” his ex-girlfriend supposedly committed against him, but ALL of it. Well, Brooke, I’m spending my life in prison for something I didn’t do, so how the hell do you think I am?