Former Undercover NCIS cop, now Jack Widow is A Drifter. A Nobody. A Stranger. A Hero. Jack Widow, the ultimate loner, waits to catch a bus at a Texas station to nowhere in particular. Seated across from him is an elderly woman, clearly in a state of distress. Eight hours ago, her own son, who just got out of prison, abducted her granddaughter and vanished. Her son, James Hood, is mixed up with the wrong people--powerful people. The kind of people who will kill to protect a deadly secret. Terrified for her granddaughter's life, she has no one left to trust. With nowhere to turn, she follows their trail, on her own, toward a border town in South Texas. After showing Widow a picture of her six-year-old granddaughter, Claire Hood drops dead of natural causes, right at the bus station, right in front of him. Jack Widow isn't the kind of guy to let wrongs go. He picks up her bus ticket and takes her place on a quest that will give him a reason to kill.