While on vacation to Florida's Gulf Coast, young lovers, Ryan Branan and Joy Robertson, witness a gruesome murder. They are unable to identify the killers, but did the killers identify them? Oblivious to the killers' schemes, Ryan and Joy return home, continue their education, get married and Ryan is shipped off to Vietnam. In a tragic twist of fate, on the same day Ryan is captured and incarcerated as a prisoner of war, his beloved Joy is brutally murdered. Years will pass before Ryan learns the truth about his wife's death, after surviving torture and deprivation at the hands of a foreign enemy and orchestrating a heroic escape. It will be the trials and revelations that await him on the home front that mold Ryan into a man bent on gaining justice for the woman he loved, and impassioned to extract that justice, even if it means doing it himself. The Wrath of Azrael is a fast-paced and heart-wrenching epic about love, honor, loyalty, and the depths and stamina of the human spirit.