After helping overturn the conviction of an innocent Marine and his 20-year sentence, Captain Woody White thought his duties as a Marine Corps lawyer would return to normal. A bounty on his head and an attempt on his life were anything but normal. When a silent, deadly malady almost kills him and ends his service as a Marine, Woody begins practicing law in his hometown and re-connects with his high-school crush.

Is there romance in his future? He becomes involved in a murder-for-hire killing and the search for the people who hired the killer.