Dr. Mike Scanlan is serving his country as a podiatrist in Afghanistan performing surgeries and saving lives. Suddenly his life is turned upside down when his wife is found in there home dead from an accidental knife wound that caused her to pass out and hit her head on the counter on the way down. This leaves him with their one-year-old daughter to raise alone. Of course, he has help from Claudine's sister Daphene and her husband Tom who have taken Emily into their home for now.
It turns out that Claudine was secretly drinking. Tom told him and Mike found the bottles all over the house. While Daphne is being overprotective of Emily and won't let Mike anywhere near her that seems to be okay with Mike as he seems to be obsessed with finding out why Claudine was drinking. He only has one month left in his tour and he gets talked into uping for one more year. But before he leaves for the month Tom, a lawyer, has him sign some forms giving them temporary legal custody of his daughter, or so he thinks.
He has an accident over there and loses part of his arm and comes home early. He has the expected problems with the Oxycontin and becomes addicted. He makes one half-assed attempt to connect with his daughter and is happy when it works but then they fall asleep together and she wakes up but he doesn't and she nearly falls down the stairs. Tom and Daphne come down on him like a ton of bricks.
While away Mike gets the autopsy report back and finds out that Claudine was pregnant so he hacks into her email with the help of Daphne and finds that she had a lover Mac207. In their neighborhood, there is a Macfarland whose son is in his twenties and it seems helped her out with some stuff around the house. So he goes off half-cocked and punches the kid without even asking whether or not the guy slept with his wife. He was going to get confirmation from Sara her best friend but she's mysteriously mugged and murdered before he can.
Now he's obsessed with solving Sara's murder and not with spending any time with Emily and guess what? Daphne and Tom move to take Emily away from him. Those papers he signed give them permanent custody. Now he has to fight to get his daughter back. None of these characters are appealing. Mike is a dolt who is obsessed with everything but his daughter who he should be obsessed with. And Daphne and Todd come across as evil villains out to steal his child from him. His old work buddy is a jerk who only wants to use his war record to sell stuff. His Army buddies, except one, were keeping him from coming home. I just really did not like this book. I give it two and a half stars.
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