The air in New Orleans is alive, thick with whispers of the past, secrets carried on the breeze like ghostly confessions.

I’ve always felt the city watching me, its shadows stretching long, its history wrapping itself around me like chains I can’t break.

By day, I’m Grayson Wolfe, the polished diamond trader, navigating the glittering circles of wealth and power. But when the sun dips below the horizon, the man I was--the detective I can’t stop being--rises to the surface.

The cases I couldn’t solve haunt me. Faces of the lost, voices of the silenced--they never really leave.

I thought I’d left that life behind until Ava Sinclair crossed my path. A mystery writer with a knack for digging too deep, her newest book tore open wounds that were never meant to heal. And when she became a target, I didn’t hesitate.

Something in her fire, her determination, pulled me in.

Now, we’re bound by danger, drawn into a labyrinth of lies, with the ghosts of this city whispering cryptic truths in our ears. Ava is my light in the darkness, but the deeper we dig, the more I fear the truth we uncover will destroy us both.

Still, I can’t walk away. Not this time. Not from her. Not from the truth.