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Three years ago, Kian Vance woke up in a rain-slicked alley with a fractured memory, a throbbing scar, and an impossible curse: he can hear the thoughts of animals. To survive, he lives hand-to-mouth as a low-rent private investigator, using city crows, alley cats, and stray dogs as his secret network of informants to solve unsolvable cases.
He keeps his head down, avoids attention, and never stays in one place too long.
Until Julian Cross steps out of a black sedan.
Polished, high-society, and impossibly wealthy, Julian is a top-tier defense attorney with a dangerous secret of his own. Assigned by his family's shadow syndicate to track down "Subject Zero"-the lab experiment that got away-Julian enters Kian's life under the guise of hiring him for a high-stakes homicide trial where the only witness is a dog.
Kian thinks Julian is just an arrogant rich lawyer who happens to know too much. He doesn't know that Julian carries the crushing weight of a childhood trauma, a forgotten promise, and a devotion so deep it borders on dangerous.
As they navigate high-society corruption, underground syndicate threats, and a growing, undeniable flame between them, the past threatens to drag them both under. Because in a world built on lies, the only honest witnesses are the ones with fangs and feathers-and the ultimate betrayal might come from the man holding Kian's heart.