Youโre a hero every fucking day,Tate,โ I said softly. โDonโt ever forget that.โ โHawke Ex Special Forces soldier Michael โHawkeโ Hawkins has spent every day of the last ten years waiting for the moment he would get to watch the life fade from the eyes of the men who brutally murdered his wife, but when he finally gets the break heโs been waiting for, the trail leads him to someone he wasnโt expecting. After nearly two years of running, 24-year-old Tate Travers has become an expert at hidingโฆuntil the day a dangerous stranger shows up looking for vengeance and threatens to destroy the fragile life Tate has managed to build for himself and his five-year-old son. Except the life Tate has been struggling to hold on to started unraveling long before Hawke showed up looking for the same men Tate has been running fromโฆhis own father and older brother. Retribution โ itโs all Hawke has wanted since the day he held his wifeโs hand as she took her last breath. And he wonโt give that up for anything or anyoneโฆnot even the tormented young man trying to give his little boy a better life. Because Tate is the only one who can lead Hawke to the men heโs been searching for. And if it means forcing the young man to confront the past that nearly destroyed him, then so be it. Only the last thing Hawke expects to feel is something besides the hatred that has driven him. And he definitely never expected to feel it for a man. But when it comes down to choosing between the unwanted feelings Tate stirs in him and the revenge heโs finally close enough to taste, will Hawke be able to give up the one thing that has kept him going for a second chance at a future he gave up on ever having?