A tale of two sisters in danger—and the New Orleans detective trying to protect them—from a USA Today–bestselling "master of romantic suspense" ( Booklist).

Frantic to escape her paranoid, violent husband—a Louisiana senator—Holly Ames takes her young son and flees into the dead of night. Four weeks later, prosecutor-turned-defense-attorney Meredith Rawson's dying mother makes a shocking confession.

Now Meredith is on a journey to fulfill her mother's last wish that she find the half sister she never knew: Holly Ames. But before she can begin her search, her home is ransacked and her life threatened . . .

Haunted by his dark past, all New Orleans PD homicide detective Gage Gaynor wants is to put predators away and clean up a city riddled with crime. The hunt for a killer will bring him to Meredith's door and into the middle of a world of privilege and corruption where the ties that bind can be the most lethal of all.