Thomas Payton

An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.

Josh Fosse is a 20-something guy whose life is going nowhere. His girl left him, his rent is late, and he lacks a real job. He is trying to make it as an app reviewer online and decides to review a self-help app called i-Lived for fun. He signs on and immediately his life turns around. He meets the girl of his dreams and he gets a job offer he can't refuse. Convinced it's him and not the app, he signs out... and loses everything. He signs on again but this time the terms are different, the app is asking him to do things that are out of his moral comfort zone, but which are essential to becoming the success the app tells him he can be.

When scandal-prone political daughter Emma Whitmore is forced into a PR exile at a remote military field base, she expects grueling drills, strained optics, and a cold reunion with her estranged father, General Whitmore. What she doesn't expect is Private Jack Callahan-a sarcastic, insubordinate grunt who seems oddly comfortable in a place meant to humble men like him. Their tension is instant. So is their chemistry. But Jack is hiding more than a bad attitude-he's the secret heir to a powerful defense contractor and is on base under an assumed identity, trying to reckon with the cost of his family's empire.