Shane has spent years living with the consequences of one terrible night. While other people built careers and families, he spent the years that should have been college behind bars. Now he works a cattle ranch far from home, keeps his past mostly to himself, and measures his life by a simple rule: protect the people he loves, especially his twin sister Rox and her little girl, Lily. Then Lily is taken. The kidnappers demand money, secrecy, and one person to make the drop. Shane. Suddenly the distance he has put between himself and his old life means nothing. He returns to a family already cracking under fear and an investigation complicated by questions no one wants to answer. The abduction feels organized, but certain details are too personal to dismiss. Old anger surrounding Shane's conviction resurfaces. His father's death, a case of influence and injustice that never stopped haunting the family, casts a long shadow over the present. And the people behind Lily's disappearance may be connected to something larger than a single ransom. Shane does not trust easily, but he will need help from law enforcement, from Rox, and from people who know the criminal world better than he does if he wants to find his niece alive. Every hour pulls him deeper into a network that has survived by staying invisible, and every choice tests whether prison changed him or merely taught him how far he can go. Before dawn, Shane may finally get the chance to save someone he loves. The price may be facing the truth about why he was chosen in the first place.
Shane has spent years living with the consequences of one terrible night. While other people built careers and families, he spent the years that should have been college behind bars. Now he works a cattle ranch far from home, keeps his past mostly to himself, and measures his life by a simple rul...