A drifting Marine. A pastor with a monstrous secret. And a fearless girl about to do what the grown men around her are too afraid to.

Daniel Briggs is still running.

A Marine sniper with a war in his head and a bottle of Jack as his only steady companion, he's drifting north with no plan but the next train and no reason to wake up but the next sunrise. So when a roadside pastor offers him a hot meal and a quiet room, Daniel takes it—figuring a church farm is as good a place as any to disappear.

He should have kept walking.

Because Pastor Ed Walker is hiding something in the woods behind his church. Something that arrives drugged and silent in the dead of night. Something that turns Daniel's stomach and lights a fuse he's spent years trying to drown in whiskey.

The only good thing on that property is Walker's daughter, Anna—fourteen years old, fearless, and burning with a sense of right and wrong her own father lost a long time ago. She sees exactly what her dad is tangled up in. And while two broken men stand around trading excuses, Anna does the one thing neither of them has the guts to do.

Daniel came to this town to vanish.

Instead, he's about to remind every monster in it why you never, ever put a child in danger when there's a Marine close enough to hear her scream.

Find her. Save them. Burn the rest to the ground. Book 2 of the Daniel Briggs Novels—set in the world of C. G. Cooper's million-selling Corps Justice series.

For fans of Robert McCall in The Equalizer, Lee Child's Jack Reacher, and Jack Carr's James Reece.