Broken Soldier - The Kingston Tales, #6

Eleanor Walton and Bret Carson have something in common—secrets. They hold them so close, that they're having nightmares. Bret gave up his army ranger commission to return to the family homestead. Unemployable, he hopes the tranquility of home will abate the post traumatic stress he suffers from. Eleanor's husband has died in a car crash with three other men leaving her and their two girls destitute. The police claim he was a member of a smash and grab jewelry team. Six months later, she is facing abject poverty. A rent due notice on a postal box she didn't know they had arrives. In the collection of miscellaneous mail are bank statements from an off shore account and love letters from strangers. Eleanor she realizes the police were right. Her husband was not only a jewel thief, he was an adulterer. Siphoning off the account's interest, Eleanor carefully her finances, however nightmares haunt her for her illicit use of the money. On an icy night in the countryside, Bret and Eleanor meet when her car rightens goes into a ditch outside Bret's home. A psychic connection is made when she pulls him out of a fugue state where he's locked in war torn Afghanistan. She agrees to help him with his return to sanity. While their relationship progresses beyond friendship, the only surviving member of the criminal team is waking up from a coma. Hardesty wants the proceeds from the heists and he will do anything to get it. Refusing to return to poverty, Eleanor is in the crosshairs of a dangerous murderer and only a man trained in the art of war will be able to save her.