Here, at last and in his own words, is Tyler’s story . . . Once upon a time . . . There lived an ambitious boy determined to become a man before his time. And a woman, a battered soldier who recognized the scars that marred his soul – scars that mirrored her own. Determined to help shape the warrior within him, it was their inexplicable bond that would for ever alter his heart . . . And the loss of that love that would redefine his destiny. After all, nothing has ever been fair in love and war.