About the book

The dangerous thing about Jasper isn’t the way he looks at Katy. It’s the way he stays.

He shows up for her, asking nothing. No demands, no push, just steady patience. It’s the sort of persistence that makes her walls feel thinner than they used to. Through the quiet conversations and silly moments with his family, she’s almost managing to keep her distance. Almost managing to keep her heart locked down where it belongs. But slowly, her resistance erodes.

Then his sister disappears.

When Megan vanishes, what remains of Katy's carefully ordered world fractures. The badge demands she follow procedure, keep her distance, play by the rules. But the woman Jasper has helped her become demands something else entirely—demands she fight and break every rule she's built her life around.

Because for the first time in years, Katy has something to lose.