Two days.In a span of just two days, the paths of three complete strangers are forced together in a way none of them could have foreseen or even thought possible.Two days ago, Eric Winston was about to be a made man. As the head of Mjollnir Industries he had operated at the forefront of the criminal underworld for over three decades and was finally getting his chance to join the big leagues. An international conglomerate of businessmen and government officials that come together to form one of the largest drug rings in existence. Winston’s final task before being officially brought on board is to host a one night, winner take all event featuring the best underground fighters in the world. Everything was in order, until a competitor backed out... Two days ago, Will Honeycutt was an anonymous Portland firefighter, doing his best to provide for his young family. When the St. Rita’s Orphanage burned to the ground and he pulled a half dozen children to safety, he inadvertently thrust himself into the public eye. Now, accompanied by local surgeon and brother Heath, Will sets off to begrudgingly attend a banquet in his honor. Two days ago, FBI special agent Mike Manus was doggedly working the case that killed his father nearly three decades before. When a call comes in that could finally unlock the puzzle he’s spent his entire career trying to solve, he boards a plane in pursuit of what he hopes will finally be absolution. Operating as the head of a joint task force with the Portland FBI and the marines, Manus will do everything he can to avenge multiple fallen agents and finally put his own long-tormented conscience to rest. Twelve is a tale that effectively melds the three seemingly unconnected worlds of Winston, Honeycutt, and Manus. Over the course of only two days, their stories become inexorably linked to one another, moving forward in a tightening spiral that will remain with all three for the rest of their days.

“His life is not a vacuum. The things he says and does, decisions he makes, reverberate in ways he can’t begin to fathom.” In the year since his tenure as Governor of Montana came to an end, Carson Wirth’s life has been little more than a victory lap with time spent back in his hometown of Helena, free to make the perfunctory rounds as something of a minor celebrity. Someone to give the occasional guest lecture at the local college or to offer a sound bite on the evening news. His existence isn’t without its benefits, but when an opportunity presents itself to insert himself into a newly vacated United States Representative seat, Wirth jumps at it, envisioning an entirely new act for his career. An act that many others aren’t nearly as excited to see come to pass. Hours after stepping off the stage to receive his endorsement from the outgoing representative, Wirth wakes up alone in an old farm outbuilding. Handcuffed to a steel chair bolted to the floor, he embarks on a night painstakingly put together by his captors, each moment meant to impart the full repercussions of every decision he made overseeing the state. Some with consequences reaching far beyond anything he ever intended…or even imagined.

“You remember that game we used to play when I was a kid? The one where you would let me pick out a code word, and if ever anything was wrong, all I had to do was call and say it, or yell it out when you came to pick me up?” “Well, this morning I woke up to find this.” Turning the phone my way, she thrust it out at arm’s length before her. Two words, totaling just nine letters. Mom! Hungry! Twenty-five years ago, Rand “Bear” Bryant’s worst nightmares came true when his work with the FBI’s Fugitive Task Force followed him home. One of the suspects he and his team were pursuing showed up at his home in the middle of the night. A crew of armed men descended on the Bryant house, intent on snuffing out any interest in them, no matter the cost. Bear and his family survived the bloody, brutal affair, though not without scars. Wounds his wife and daughter couldn’t overcome sent them fleeing to the Pacific Northwest. A place as far removed from him and the associated trauma as possible, while still remaining in the continental United States. A distant location Bear spent decades visiting before ultimately relocating for retirement as well. He maintained a constant vigil, a state of overwatch,to ensure nothing like what took place that night ever happened to his family again. A self-appointed post he maintained until told not to by his daughter exactly five hundred days ago. A firm directive rescinded after receiving a text message in the middle of the night from her own teenaged daughter, in dire need of help. Fearing the worst, Bear’s daughter shows up at his doorstep seeking help in a way only he can provide. The start of a whirlwind stretch that sees the two of them plunge back into a life he had left behind, while at the same time trying to navigate their own rocky history. Another bloody, brutal affair they can only hope to survive again…