John Worthy knows about loss.
He’s a fiction. A phony. A made-up man–with a singular, deadly talent.
An Army surgeon, he’s a loner. But then he meets Roni Keller: stubborn, determined, a fearless physician. Closer than friends, not quite lovers, they are deployed to assist in the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan.
Where John makes a single, fatal mistake–and now he’s lost Roni, too.
Broken, John has checked into Brighter Days, a rehabilitation ranch for wounded warriors, and remade himself—again. Out of the blue, Hank Patterson shows up with an offer: return to Afghanistan with Taz
Davila on a retrieval mission to recover Captain Keller’s remains from the forbidding mountains of the Wakhan Corridor.
How and why Roni’s body ended up hundreds of miles from where she died…no one knows. And just what is in the mountains that’s got the Russians—and even the Chinese—so interested?
In a race against time and enemies both known and hidden, John Worthy must confront
present dangers and past demons to find redemption—and recover what he has lost.