BLACKWATER BRIDGE

Once a Marine always a Marine. Harry Edmondson was honorably discharged twenty years earlier and still suffered with PTSD. Haunted by his failure to save a child's life in Afghanistan, and the war, he fights flashbacks, nightmares and depression. After being in remission for the last few years the PTSD returned, with a vengeance, when he saves a young woman's life. A psychotic kidnapper and rapist had dumped the semi-conscience woman into a raging river to drown.By fate, Harry is drawn to the Blackwater Bridge where he discoverers her naked, wrapped in a heavy wool coat, lodged in a crevice of a rock and retrieves her. The body is emaciated beyond belief. Thinking its a dead body he carries it from the river up the bank, away from the raging water, to level ground. When he realizes that she's still alive he carries her on to his SUV and calls 9-1-1. At the hospital she spends weeks in a coma. Doctors are uncertain if she will survive.Harry had saved her life, but will it count for anything or will it turn out like the Afghan girl. He had always felt he was destined to be a hero and someday save a girl's life, a childhood dream that he hadn't outgrown. Terrified of losing her he visited her at the hospital daily. He felt responsible for her survival. She was his chance for redemption. Ruling out suicide he became obsessed in locating the person responsible for her condition. Harry is an architect, a family man, with a wife, son and daughter. He imagines his daughter being held captive, raped and starved. He won't give up until the person is found and punished.