After her brother's death, Mercy Adams learns how to stay very still. She spends her days at the place where he was left behind, measuring time by what no longer moves. The world continues without him, and she lets it. Lev Makarov knows what ended Mercy's brother's life-just not who. Bound by blood, loyalty, and a promise he can't abandon, he begins searching for the truth while watching Mercy disappear under the weight of her grief. As secrets surface and silence tightens its grip, Mercy and Lev are drawn together in the space between what was taken and what remains. Loving him may mean learning to stay. Finding the truth may mean losing more than either of them are prepared to give. Some losses are never resolved. Some are answered for.