Jackson "Jax" Reed has exchanged his years as a reporter to become a New York Times bestselling author. Being birthed from an affair, Jax has always had a cloud that's loomed over his life. Despite the growing success of his true crime books, a secret that his mother took to the grave has turned his life upside-down.When a medical emergency strikes the Reed family, Jax rushes home. At the hospital, Jax runs into an old flame, Ebony Hampton, the woman who broke off their engagement fifteen years ago. When an old "friend" makes a daring escape from prison and secrets from Justice's lineage collide, the former couple will find themselves risking their lives together.