SSG Cull Dempsey returns to the town he grew up in ostensibly to help get one of his men settled after a career ending injury, but he's at a crossroads himself. Due for retirement, tired of certain parts of his job and not knowing anything but the life he's led for over twenty years, he doesn't see a place for himself in the civilian world. Nor does he think he belongs anywhere near Megan Hall, a beautiful but battered woman just starting to live...