Navy Commander Joe Reed has spent years leaving his wife and three children behind for duty. With his latest deployment almost over, home is only days away—until two women from his camp disappear and Joe joins the team sent to find them.
They walk straight into an ambush.
Captured by a ruthless extremist organization, injured and cut off from everyone he loves, Joe soon discovers his captors aren't interested only in what he knows. They have studied him. They know his family. And when their leader shows Joe messages exchanged with his twelve-year-old daughter, the fight becomes terrifyingly personal.
Back home, retired Navy captain Eric Hamilton refuses to stand by while his closest friend is missing. But finding Joe means entering a world of online manipulation, foreign recruits, shifting loyalties, and an enemy whose reach may extend much farther than anyone realized.
As the rescue closes in, Joe will do whatever he can to survive and protect the prisoners around him. But coming home may prove only the beginning. One soldier is dead. One woman is still missing. And Joe must face the wife and children who learned to live with the possibility that he wasn't coming back.
A gripping military suspense novel about captivity, loyalty, family, survival, and the choices that can change everything.
Lorhainne Eckhart is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author known for emotionally powerful romance, romantic suspense, mystery, and family saga novels. Her stories feature strong characters, complex family dynamics, small-town secrets, justice, loyalty, and love tested by danger. With multiple bestselling series, including A Billy Jo McCabe Mystery, The Friessen Legacy, The O’Connells, The McCabe Brothers, The Parker Sisters, The Street Fighter, and The Wilde Brothers, Eckhart writes compelling stories where ordinary people face extraordinary choices.