"The USA TODAY bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths series and Burying Water which Kirkus Reviews called a sexy, romantic, gangster-tinged page-turner returns with a new novel packed with romance, plot twists, and psychological suspense. Ivy Lee, a talented tattoo artist who spent the early part of her twenties on the move, is looking for a place to call home. She thinks she might havefinally found it working in her uncle's tattoo shop in San Francisco. But all that changes when a robbery turns deadly, compelling her to pack up her things yet again. When they need the best, they call him. That's whySebastian Riker is back in California, cleaning upthe mess made after a tattoo shop owner with a penchant for blackmail got himself shot. But it's impossible to get the answers he needs from a dead body, leaving him to look elsewhere. Namely, to the twenty-something-year-old niece who believes this was a random attack. Who needs to keep believingthat until Sebastian finds what he's searching for. Ivy has one foot out of San Francisco when a chance encounter with a stranger stalls her departure.