Homicide: A Long Walk to Nowhere
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Synopsis
Grief didn't just break Grey Sterling-it crystallized into a blade.
At nineteen, Grey's life was already drifting toward the edge. It began with Esther Blackwood: beautiful, untouchable, and wrapped in a danger he didn't yet understand. A bloody encounter in the Seattle rain left him in a hospital bed, clutching a phone she gave him like a tether to a world of shadows. But while Grey was waking up to Esther's dark promise, his own world was being erased.
A brutal home invasion left his parents and his younger brother, Julian, dead-turning his sanctuary into a tomb of yellow tape and cold floorboards. Left with nothing but a Ducati, a suitcase of ghosts, and a soul-crushing silence, Grey is truly alone in a city that doesn't care if he breathes.
Now a ghost in a leather jacket working the graveyard shift at a Capitol Hill coffee shop, Grey finds that the shadows haven't forgotten him. When the vultures return to finish the job, it isn't the law that saves him-it's Detective Robin Cross.
A mountain of a man with a gaze that lingers too long, Robin doesn't just want to solve a case; he wants to claim the wreckage of Grey Sterling. Torn between the detective who wants to mold him and the woman who makes him crave the dark, Grey begins a long walk through blood and fog. He isn't looking for a way out anymore; he's looking to become the monster the world forced him to be.
In Seattle, there is only one destination for a path like that.
Homicide.
STORY INFORMATION
Genre: Noir Thriller / Action / Dark Romance
Vibe: Gritty PNW realism & high-stakes warfare.
Rating: 18+ (Mature themes & graphic violence).
Copyright © 2023 Shawn Ellian.
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