Born into the most powerful crime family in the city, twenty-two-year-old Evan Ashford has never questioned the truth he was raised to believe. When his father is critically wounded in an ambush, all evidence points to the Cole family—and Evan takes his rage out on Adrian Cole, the last surviving son of the alleged traitors.
But Adrian refuses to confess. As inconsistencies emerge and enemies close in, captor and captive are forced to rely on each other to survive. Their uneasy alliance soon becomes a dangerous attraction, pushing Evan to choose between the family that shaped him and the man he once swore to destroy.
Together, they uncover a conspiracy of forged evidence, murder, and betrayal reaching deep into the Ashford empire. Yet clearing Adrian’s name may be only the beginning. Just as they believe they have won their freedom, a new threat rises from the one person Evan still trusts most.
