Kane has survived these streets and kept his people alive by letting no one close. But when a rival attack leaves his fixer dying, he crosses the city line to kidnap a medic. Rafael is nothing like he expects. He doesn’t flinch at Kane or judge the life he’s built, and his quiet kindness gets under Kane’s skin faster than any threat ever could. Kane didn’t plan on wanting him this much. He definitely didn’t plan on wanting him to stay.

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Rafael was raised to believe the Outer Districts were lawless, and men like Kane were meant to be feared. But the longer he stays, the more impossible Kane becomes to resist with his fierce loyalty and unexpected tenderness, the way he carries every loss like it’s his to bear. Rafael knows he should keep his distance from the gang leader. Instead, Kane becomes the one person Rafael can’t make himself walk away from.

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But with a gang war closing in and Rafael’s old life waiting in Midtown, a life together may cost more than either of them expected.