📘 Summary — Awakened (Book One of the James Erwin Trilogy)

When a car bomb shatters a family gathering, retired black-ops agent James Erwin is forced back into the shadows he thought he’d left behind. His nephew is dead. His brother-in-law may have traded blood for currency. And buried beneath official records is a truth far more devastating: James was never just the uncle… he was the father.

As James unravels a conspiracy tied to federal ghost programs, cartel war rooms, and a silent organization known as Black Crown, he must confront enemies with diplomatic clearance and allies wearing masks. But the greatest danger may not be the men hunting him—it’s the part of himself he locked away.

Fueled by grief, haunted by secrets, and driven by the final words of a boy who only ever called him Uncle J, James Erwin will stop at nothing to unearth the truth—even if it means becoming a weapon again.

AWAKENED is the explosive beginning of a trilogy that fuses cinematic action with emotional depth, cracking open the cost of silence, the pain of legacy, and the redemption buried in every reckoning.