Despair: the Beginning

Despair: The Beginning is the first installment of a book series. Jason Dunston, lead protagonist is a smart, yet whimsically clumsy actuary working for a Math and Science institution. Him and his girlfriend, Amber, live together and everything in his life seems well. But everything changes when during an argument a bullet storm breaks through their living room window, killing Amber. Now Jason, along with is best friends, Michael and Lina, go on the search to find her killers. They say that the past can come back to haunt you, but no one could predict it would come like this.