Lloyd Freestone is a retired sawmill worker who resides in Kimberley, B.C. He loves gardening, music and writing, mostly for his own gratification. He has one child, Kayla, and one grandson, Dreven, and is happily married to his wife of 42 years, Connie.
While on a mission to investigate a supposedly empty dwelling in the middle of nowhere in Iraq, Lieutenant Johnny Tisdale of the Canadian Armed Forces finds and rescues a missing sergeant of the United States Marine Corps. After getting her safely back to her own troops, he is asked by the ranking colonel to join his black-ops team.