Sergeant Rick Newman has shipped to Afghanistan with the Combat Engineers to support the Marines currently fighting to expel the Taliban and Al-Qaeda elements plaguing the locals. After a mission goes wrong and his fiancee's brother is killed in action, he blames himself for her brother's death and the subsequent dissolution of their relationship. Running from the demons that haunt him, he must find it in his heart to forgive himself, even as she has forgiven him.

Sergeant Rick Newman has shipped to Afghanistan with the Combat Engineers to support the Marines currently fighting to expel the Taliban and Al-Qaeda elements plaguing the locals. After a mission goes wrong and his fiancee's brother is killed in action, he blames himself for her brother's death and the subsequent dissolution of their relationship. Running from the demons that haunt him, he must find it in his heart to forgive himself, even as she has forgiven him.

With the Vietnam War entering its sixth year, Lieutenant Carl Daniels leads his platoon on search-and-destroy missions around Saigon. As the war intensifies, he must find the courage to fight and win his own personal battle: To maintain his humanity, to survive, and to return to Rhiannon, his beloved wife. Can he manage to keep his brothers in arms alive, while the madness of the war rages around them?