A Dark Road Home: The Coldwater Sheriff Series Book One

Caleb Rourke came home to Coldwater looking for a quieter life. After twenty years in the Army and a Special Forces career, becoming sheriff was supposed to be a second chance—not war.

Then a burned pickup is discovered on Miller’s Cut, with Aaron Turner’s body arranged to resemble an overdose. The evidence points toward Sentinel Ridge, an emergency-response contractor hiding a criminal network beneath its public service. As witnesses disappear and corruption reaches inside his department, Caleb realizes the skills he hoped to leave behind may be needed to protect his town.

But fighting alone has cost Caleb too much. To expose the truth, rescue the innocent, and survive the darkness closing around Coldwater, he must trust Chief Deputy Mara Ortiz, accept help from unexpected allies, and confront the wound he carried home from war.

Some roads lead a man away from his past.

The darkest one leads him home.