First published 2025
Chief of Police Walk has never left his coastal hometown. Thirty years ago, his best friend Vincent King went to prison for a crime Walk helped convict him of. Now Vincent is free, and Walk must protect Vincent's daughter Duchess, a self-proclaimed outlaw raising her younger brother alone. As Walk and Duchess grapple with their families' tangled histories and present-day troubles, they find unexpected common ground in their struggle to keep their loved ones from self-destructing. At its heart, this is a story about the families we're born into and the ones we build to survive.
Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
376 pages · Paperback