Seventy-seven-year-old Marine veteran Jacob Hinsen fights a daily, quiet battle against the suffocating grip of PTSD and the ghosts of Vietnam. His fragile peace is anchored by his volunteer work at the Veterans Hospital and a morning ritual of waving to three young, plaid-skirted schoolgirls waiting for their bus.But when a nondescript grey minivan replaces the girls and a familiar floral book bag lies abandoned on the curb, Jacob's honed instincts scream that something is terribl...

The war didn't end at the extraction point. For many, the real ambush was waiting at home.Coming back to the world was supposed to be the victory. But for those living in the shadow of PTSD, the silence that follows is more dangerous than any active combat zone. It's a silence that chokes out the truth, builds walls between loved ones, and whispers that you're the only one left on the battlefield.Denying the pain doesn't make it go away—it just makes the am...

Jacob Hinsen is a successful Chicago trial lawyer who built his career on the strength of evidence and the rigor of the law. But his world is cleaved into "before" and "after" when his nine-year-old daughter, Jessica, is killed in a senseless accident just three weeks after he promised he would always protect her.Refusing to accept standard religious platitudes like "she is in a better place," Jacob treats the claim of an afterlife as a legal case requiring verifiable proof. Leavin...