When someone dies to save your life, how do you ever forgive them?
Kara Johnson always knew sheâd die young and violently. It didnât matter who delivered the final blow, she would deserve itâher years spent running drugs and spreading violence would guarantee it. But death doesnât always go as planned.
When her girlfriend sacrifices herself to save Karaâs life, Kara is left grieving and adrift. She doesnât know why sheâs alive until the DEA shows up and offers her a choice: go to prison or turn informant to lure out the last of the drug trafficking ring that murdered her girlfriend.
Max Summerlin is the kind of cop who needs answersâheâs been shot twice in the last year while looking for them. Despite his familyâs objections and his struggle with chronic pain, he accepts an invitation from the DEA task force eagerly. That is, until he realizes heâll be babysitting reformed drug
trafficker Kara Johnson as she goes undercover.
Max knows Kara is keeping secrets. Kara doesnât trust anyone, let alone Max. But the cop and the criminal will have to find a way to work together fast, because they arenât the only ones hunting down the remains of a drug empire. And the kingpin who lurks in the shadows will stop at nothing to win.