Trial by Fire

Ex-Navy SEAL CPO Grant Nilsson has spent enough of his life in the line of fire. There were only three ways you left that level of service - you were forced out, you burned out, or you died. He was right on the cusp of burning out when his superiors had nudged him towards retirement and he'd taken the honorable discharge for what it was. As fresh a start as he'd ever get, damaged as he was.

After the chaos of the war crimes case that very nearly ended both their lives, CPO Grant Nilsson and prosecutor Carly Jackson are taking things slow. Things are peaceful and easy until Carly is assigned a murder case with the accused being a prominent local gang member. Carly tries to keep her worlds as separate as they can be but after a series of threatening letters, the final straw is a drive-by shooting of her laundromat while she's in there. Her superiors reach out to a private security firm.