Peter Jericho has spent most of his adult life living for God and serving his country as one of the few and the proud Marines. Just before getting the orders for his third assignment in Iraq his once solid marriage suddenly takes a turn for the worse prompting his wife Jan and their twelve-year-old daughter Kyla to leave their family home on the Marine base in Twenty-Nine Palms California and permanently relocate to Atlanta Georgia living with Jans mother in an infamous community called Shelton Heights. Peter vows to reclaim the family he loves so dearly when he returns to the States. But 28 days before his tour ends Peter finds himself a captured prisoner of war. As one by one comrades are put to death at the hands of the enemy survival doesnt seem likely for Master Sergeant Eyan Kyle Jericho and he finds himself in the battle of a lifetime. Are all of the peculiar misfortunes that led to the break up of his family and his capture in Iraq just happenstance or has the legend of Shelton Heights caught up with yet another unsuspecting family?