This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. SOME NIGHTS DEFINE YOU. SOME NIGHTS DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU WERE AND FORGE YOU INTO SOMETHING NEW.

August, 1999. Lafayette, Louisiana.

Matthew Riley has survived Desert Storm, transitioned to civilian life, and found work on an oil rig in the Gulf to support his family. After six weeks offshore, he's finally coming home to his wife Cleo and teenage son James. Two weeks of normalcy. Two weeks to be husband and father again instead of roughneck and provider.

But the front door is standing open.

And there's blood in the living room.

WHEN THE MONSTERS HAVE ALREADY WON
What Riley finds inside destroys him: his wife dying in a stranger's arms, her throat torn open. The intruder's face covered in her blood. Canine teeth too long to be human sliding from pale gums as the creature hisses and lunges.

Riley fights with the fury of a man who has nothing left to lose. A baseball bat becomes a weapon. The living room becomes a killing ground. And when it's over, two intruders lie dead—one with his skull crushed, the other impaled on the backyard fence.

But his family is gone. And the nightmare is just beginning.