An Innocent Man by J.T. Cheyanne

Lincoln Carter wants nothing from the world around him. He trusts no one and shuns any attempts at friendship. Convicted while still a teenager, he has spent most of his life trapped behind metal bars. When an unexpected pardon brings him face to face with the first officer on scene, he flees into the mountains to escape Dallas’s compelling presence and the memories the man triggers.
At long last, he will get the answers he’s spent his career hunting. Dallas Schultz never believed Lincoln was guilty. When Lincoln’s family doesn’t respond, he personally delivers the pardon to the super max prison where Lincoln Carter has been incarcerated for two decades. Lincoln is not the gangly kid he remembers. Prison has hardened him. Dallas’s hopes of finally putting together the pieces of his first major case are dashed when Lincoln rejects his help and disappears into the mountains.
But, they aren’t the only players involved. The news of Lincoln’s release sparks a wave of outrage fed by the media. When someone violently opposed to the pardon takes aim at them both, they find themselves working together to solve the old case and the new threat against them before one of them ends up dead.