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Silas Ward’s world is reduced to ash twice over—first by his wife’s abandonment, then by the slaughter of his four-year-old daughter, Lily, in a merciless attack on her daycare. A former Special Forces operative, Silas recognizes the carnage as no random act of violence. The killers left a message: a twisted insignia from a mission he buried long ago. Now, armed with grief and a thirst for vengeance, Silas hunts the shadowy militia responsible, reassembling the fractured remnants of his retired unit—a sniper drowning in guilt, a hacker with a death wish, a tactician haunted by failure, and others as broken as he is. But as they unravel a conspiracy tying Lily’s death to Silas’s past sins, they uncover a chilling truth: the enemy they’re hunting is a ghost from their own darkest op, and Silas’s ex-wife may hold the key to why it all began. In a storm of bullets and betrayal, Silas must choose between avenging his daughter or breaking the cycle of violence that consumed his life.