In the Walker household, you could always hear the television, children’s voices or the clatter of crockery in the kitchen. A typical American home in a quiet suburb: a white fence, two cars in the driveway, children’s bicycles by the garage and an American flag near the front porch.

To outsiders, they looked like the perfect family.

Nathaniel Walker had served in the US Army for fifteen years. A respected sergeant, a reliable comrade, a loving father to two boys and a husband whom the neighbours would have trusted with the keys to their own homes without a second thought. A man used to keeping everything under control.

Hi everyone, please don’t be too hard on me about the pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’. I just still can’t seem to insert {{poss}} properly – sorry, English isn’t my first language. So it’s a bit tricky for me sometimes because of that 🙏