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A war hero fights for what he lost long ago

The Timberline Trio was the cold case everyone in toas doomed to remember Scarlett Easton hout the reservation haunts her to this day Jim Kennedy ran off to war to escape this place, and has now returned to fight his own battle on the hoer, both their loyalties will be tested Finding themselves on opposite sides of a town that’s never recovered froo, Jim and Scarlett discover that not only are their pasts forever tied together, but so are their futures

The scream chilled his blood It was the sound of a terrified woman—Scarlett

Why had she stopped following him? Why had he let her?

“Scarlett?” He reversed course, staggering and tripping through the underbrush, cursing his bu the men who’d caused it

She screae His flashlight flickered on the path ahead of hied back the way they’d come

He plowed through the tree branches back onto the trail, which allowed him to move faster “Scarlett?”

“I’m here, Jim”

His light picked her out, crurabbed onto a tree branch to stop hi on top of her

“What happened?”

She pointed into the underbrush beside her “Call 911”

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Scarlett Easton—A local artist and native Quileute, she’s a shaman in her tribe, but even these powers can’t help her when she discovers a dead body on her property and a daed army vet who has secrets to spare

Jier vet who has returned hohosts in his past, but that past collides with his future when he hosts to face