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"Usually people buy me dinner before kidnapping me. So this is new."
Syrena has a plan. It's a desperate, messy, highly illegal plan, but it's the only one she's got. Her brother Leo has been missing for three days, leaving behind nothing but a terrified voicemail and a debt he can't pay. Syrena knows he won't come home willingly-he's too deep in. If she wants to save him, she has to snatch him off the street and hide him before the debt collectors find him first.
Armed with a stolen baseball bat and a neighbor's rusted van, she executes the perfect strike.
The hit is clean. The getaway is (mostly) successful.
There's just one problem: She grabbed the wrong guy.
Instead of her brother, Syrena is now stuck in an abandoned garage with Xavier-a silver-eyed, sharp-tongued "thug" who belongs to the city's most dangerous crime family. He's tied to a kitchen chair, he has a concussion, and he thinks her "kidnapping protocol" is the funniest thing he's ever seen.
But the laughter stops when the real monsters show up at the garage door looking for him.
Now, Syrena and Xavier are on the run in a van that smells like wet paint and bad decisions. Xavier is out for blood, hunting the traitor who set him up for a fall. Syrena is just trying to keep her head above water long enough to find Leo.
Neither of them realizes they are hunting the exact same man.
In a world where one wrong turn is a death sentence, Syrena has to decide what's more dangerous: the men screaming down the highway behind them, or the man she still has tied up in the back of her van.