Overlook

About the book

Do you recall the game we used to play when I was young? The one where I could choose a secret code word, and if I ever needed help, all I had to do was say it or shout it when you came to get me?

“Well, this morning I woke up to this,” she said, turning the phone towards me and holding it out at arm’s length. Two simple words, just nine letters long.

Mom! Hungry!

Twenty-five years ago, Rand "Bear" Bryant faced his worst fears when his job with the FBI's Fugitive Task Force followed him home. A suspect he was tracking showed up at his house in the dead of night, accompanied by a group of armed men. Their intention was clear - to eliminate any threat to their operation, regardless of the cost.

Bear and his family survived the violent attack, but not without lasting scars. His wife and daughter were unable to cope with the trauma and fled to the Pacific Northwest, a place far from the danger but still within reach.

For decades, Bear kept watch over his family, determined to prevent any repeat of that fateful night. It was a duty he held onto until his daughter instructed him otherwise, exactly five hundred days ago.

However, when a desperate cry for help came from his teenage granddaughter in the middle of the night, Bear's daughter turned to him for assistance. This marked the beginning of a chaotic period where they found themselves thrust back into a dangerous world he thought he had left behind, all while trying to navigate their strained relationship.

As they face yet another violent threat, they can only hope to survive once more…