Meet the Main Character

Not the typical protagonist in a modern suspense or crime thriller, Win Tyler is a young man who joined the FBI with a mission: make the world a better place. But when his first big case goes sideways, through no fault of his own, he discovers that the good guys don’t always win—not in this life, anyway. He’s exiled to a do-nothing outpost of the Bureau, Yellowstone National Park, where nothing of note ever happens. He sees his once-promising career evaporate just as surely as the steam disappears above the park’s hot springs. And his dreams of marriage, of a family? Those have suddenly died as well. When he enters the park that snowy early April day, he couldn’t be much lower.

But it hasn’t always been like that. Win grew up on a cattle farm in the Ozarks in a close-knit Christian family. Much of his life has been sheltered, and he tends to be naive, self-conscious of his country roots, and judgmental. On the other hand, he works very hard, he doesn’t really drink, he doesn’t cuss much, and he tells  himself he doesn’t lie. As his mother reminds him in a letter, he’s always been successful at everything he’s undertaken. He was a college football star at Arkansas, he excelled in law school and in a one-year stint as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. He was first in his class at the FBI Academy and saw the Bureau as his true calling in life. He was even engaged to the girl of his dreams. 

But somehow, somewhere, he’d let his moral compass get off track and relegated his faith to the sidelines. A Noble Calling is Win’s journey to find redemption and to reaffirm the foundations of his life. 

Read more about Win’s world, fact or fiction, in my blog post.