Sevyn McBride is a trained killer who has spent years taking contracts under names that were never hers. Every target comes with proof, a plan, and a clean exit.

Then her mother is murdered.

Naomi McBride leaves behind a notebook meant only for Sevyn, filled with names, coded instructions, and secrets powerful people have killed to protect. Following it could give Sevyn the truth about her mother's death. It could also place her directly in the path of whoever wanted Naomi silenced.

Detective Trevaun Ellington has built his career on seeing what everyone else misses. When a string of deaths begins tearing through some of Charleston's most protected circles, he recognizes the connection long before anyone else does. Every clue pulls him closer to Sevyn, a woman who knows more than she will admit and gives him more reasons to question her every time they meet. She should be nothing more than part of his investigation. Instead, she becomes the one person he cannot stop watching.

As Trevaun closes in, buried secrets begin surfacing, old loyalties turn dangerous, and the case reaches further into his own world than either of them expected. Sevyn cannot allow him to stand between her and the truth her mother died protecting. Trevaun cannot ignore what the evidence is telling him, even when following it could destroy the woman he has become obsessed with. With Charleston's most powerful men determined to keep the past buried, Sevyn and Trevaun must decide how far they are willing to go for justice?and whether what is growing between them can survive the truth.