PATTI ANN COLT

No one left behind is easy to say...until it costs everything.

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Robert Baxter made his choice the day he joined the Navy – brotherhood above everything. Now, in his first days on an active SEAL team, that promise is no longer theory. It’s real. It’s relentless. And it demands everything he has.

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His mother understands the life he’s chosen. The long absences. The silence. The risk. The women he’s tried to build something with? Not so much. Relationships fracture under the weight of distance, secrecy, and a world that doesn’t wait for him to come home.

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And for the first time, Baxter is forced to confront a hard truth.

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You can’t hold onto everything.

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Not in this life. Not without a fight.