**FIRST IN A NEW SERIES
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Dell, an ex-Legionnaire was working as a mercenary when he first saw
Dolly, a nurse with Médecins Sans Frontières. When they later married,
Dell abandoned his work, and Dolly shed her identity. But not her
calling--she became a teacher, confidant, and defender of dozens of
teenagers in their Coastal Oregon village. When the star softball
pitcher guns down a popular boy on the last day of school, Dolly knows
this is no "school shooting". She goes all-in to protect "Mighty Mary"
McCoy, even to the extent of unleashing her lethal husband.
As Dolly uses her contacts to gain access to medical secrets, Dell
returns to his no-boundaries past. Using guile, extortion, shadow
networks--and, finally, an act of terrorism--he uncovers the secret
MaryLou was willing to sacrifice her own life to protect . . . a
soul-killing rite of passage demanded of the town's most vulnerable
girls, with her baby sister next on that list.