He felt her squeeze his hand and a huge smile broke from his face. "Sleep, my love, we will never leave you." He stretched out on the bed alongside her and fell asleep listening to her heartbeat.

Air Operations Command Center, Cheyenne Air National Guard Base

General Thaddeus Martin's day had just gone to shit.

The Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware had been charged with identifying the remains from Pedro 155. The rescue helicopter had mysteriously exploded and all crew were lost shortly after recovering Air Force Capt. Gary Johnson from the forest below. Except it wasn't Capt. Johnson, as the...