A war story, a love story, a murder mystery, and a lifetime of bitter and frightening PTSD burst apart when Sandi Tarbuck, who feels adrift in the wrong life since her first love was killed in war, discovers too much truth and too little dream.
When her Johnny's bones are discovered in the jungle years after the Vietnam War and brought home for burial, Sandi is desperate for answers to his strange death and to explain the emptiness at the center of her own life. Her only help is the bitter Congressman Eliot Cobb, the man who, as an Army officer in Vietnam, whitewashed the original investigation into Johnny's death. Now their joint investigation uncovers suicide, mass murder, and gang rape, and leads them to answers neither expected or expect to survive.