This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One night of absence costs a man the life he was building.In the mid-1990s, Mark Sheppard is a respected military officer with a future that appears solid from the outside. Inside, alcohol is already reshaping him. When his absence exposes what he has been holding together, the fallout is swift—and the cost keeps rising.Decades later, Mark is living the life he managed to salvage: quiet, contained, and c...