Old habits die hard. Sometimes they can even kill you.Grayson "Coop" Cooper's world is falling apart around him. Zaina Majik ("Magic"), his fiancé, is shot announcing her candidacy for Sheriff of Dare County. In the process, her boss, Sheriff Donnie Jefferies, takes a bullet that surely would have killed her. All because some people don't think an immigrant is fit to run law enforcement in Dare County North Carolina.Sober almost ten years now, Coop struggles to stay on course. He lashes out at those closest to him, and at a God he once knew but no longer understands. Friends handle him carefully keeping information from him that might add to his burden in an attempt to protect him from doing something stupid. Coop thinks about doing something stupid every day; he wants to kill those responsible.White supremacy has come to North Carolina's Outer Banks, and directly to Coop's front door. It's kill or be killed, and Coop is okay with either outcome.