After six months away in Afghanistan, the soldiers come home - to their girlfriends, wives, parents, children. After six months of hell, being home will surely be heaven. Except that it isn't. When Dan returns home to Alexa and their children, all of whom he adores, it's still the army that comes first. Alexa wasn't prepared, when she married a soldier, that she would really be marrying the regiment. Small Tear on Spine