
A Novel by Paul Holtz
He promised he'd bring her home. He intends to keep that promise.
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Marcus Caine survived the battlefield. He wasn't supposed to — and he's never forgiven himself for it.
A Marine veteran carrying wounds no one can see, Marcus has spent years trying to outrun the memory of his best friend dying in his arms in a foreign desert. He's managed. Barely. Until the call comes that changes everything.
His best friend's niece — an innocent little girl with her whole life ahead of her — has been taken. Ripped away by ruthless drug dealers collecting on a debt her father never should have made. She's terrified. She's running out of time. And the people who have her don't plan on giving her back.
The police can't move fast enough. The system is too slow. But Marcus Caine can.
Assembling a tight-knit crew of the only people he trusts — close friends, a fellow veteran who's seen the same darkness he has, and the last person he expected to call — his ex-girlfriend, now an FBI agent with everything to lose — Marcus plunges headfirst into a violent criminal underworld where the rules are simple: kill or be killed.
But the deeper he goes, the louder the ghosts get.
His PTSD isn't just a memory. It's a loaded gun pointed at everything he's trying to protect. Every gunshot pulls him back to that battlefield. Every moment of silence threatens to swallow him whole. To save this little girl, Marcus won't just have to outfight a gang of ruthless drug dealers — he'll have to win a war raging inside his own mind.
The Boogeyman's Coming is a pulse-pounding, emotionally charged thriller about loyalty, sacrifice, and the kind of courage it takes not just to face your enemies — but to face yourself.
He promised he'd bring her home. He intends to keep that promise.