West Point cadet Brooks Jenson is only months away from graduation, and he does not expect anything to block his path to a productive career in the Army. But when he finds fellow cadet Jed Figueroa murdered, everything takes a turn for the worst. Brooks is a witness who becomes a suspect as the investigation continues.

As Brooks struggles through his classes and every other aspect of cadet life, he leans on friends, family and professors for support- especially Colonel Zac Madison, a heroine of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars who now teaches at West Point. As the investigation into Jed’s death takes one startling turn after another, Brooks must find his footing if he wants to finish West Point alive.

Murder in the Barracks is the sequel to Tamar’s first novel, The Last Battle, which followed Colonel Madison on her journey back to civilian life following her injuries in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.