Erasure // Kovalsky

Scarlett Bradley spent her life building a career in the FBI, determined to become someone untouchable. But when a high-profile human trafficking case goes sideways, leaving her husband dead and her life quietly unraveling, Scarlett is forced to carry what remains in silence.

Then Big Jim finds the one secret she swore would stay buried.

Pulled into his world and bound by blackmail, Scarlett is made to clean what others leave behind-the blood, the evidence, the pieces no one is supposed to find. It is there she meets Kovalsky, a man now trapped in Big Jim's orbit, growing familiar with both the weight of dirty work and the cost of surviving it. At first, they are just two people keeping their heads down, careful not to give Big Jim anything more to use against them. But the more they work together, the harder it becomes to pretend they are nothing to each other.

Because Scarlett desperately tries to outrun the parts of her past that still hurt, and Kovalsky may be the first person who understands that some things cannot simply be erased, it makes them parallel lines destined to crash into each other anyway.

Now, the question is not only what they are willing to hide...but what they are willing to risk for something that makes them feel human again.

[This story contains dark and mature subject matter. This story contains graphic depictions of physical violence and crime scenes, strong language, explicit sexual content, themes of loss and death, descriptions of human trafficking and criminal activity, graphic descriptions of blood and gore, substance abuse, and references to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Reader discretion is strongly advised.]