life_as_it_comes
Six years ago, fourteen-year-old Maddison was living in a home that was anything but safe. When a disturbance call brings Sergeant Hank Voight to her house, he quickly realizes that the frightened girl hiding upstairs isn't simply caught in a family argument-she's been suffering at the hands of the people who were supposed to protect her.
Hank arrests her family and, unwilling to leave Maddison to face the aftermath alone, offers her a place to stay while they figure out what comes next.
What starts as a temporary arrangement slowly becomes something neither of them expected. Hank becomes the father Maddison never had, and Maddison becomes someone Hank would do anything to protect.
Six years later, Maddison is no longer the scared fourteen-year-old girl Hank first met.
She's Maddison Voight.
And she's found something she never thought she'd have: a real family.
With Hank beside her and the Intelligence Unit becoming the people she trusts most, Maddison discovers that family isn't always about blood. It's about the people who stay, protect you, believe in you-and choose you, every single day.
But working alongside Intelligence means Maddison is about to discover that being part of Hank Voight's family comes with its own dangers.
Because when someone threatens one of their own, Intelligence doesn't just stand together. They fight together.