Opening your find
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Opening your find
He came back to the one town Ethan thought was finally safe. For two years, Deputy Ethan Cole has been building a life in Appleton Falls, North Carolina — the kind of small-town life he crossed the country to find. Quiet roads. People who remember your name. Work that actually means something.
He knows every face in the county, every road in the dark, every secret this town has decided to keep. Then Dominic Starr walks through the sheriff's office door in full uniform and ruins it entirely.
They go back fifteen years — to the precinct, to the competition that never quit, to a night in an evidence room that neither of them has stopped thinking about. Dominic is brilliant, infuriating, and still using the nickname Ethan has always hated. He's also carrying secrets that could get them both killed.
Forced to work the same case — a thirty-five-year-old cover-up that buried four men and the truth along with them — Ethan and Dominic dig into a network of corruption that reaches from their small mountain county all the way to New York. The closer they get, the more the network pushes back. Messages on porches. Fires in the night.
A warning that makes one thing perfectly clear: someone will do anything to keep this buried. But the investigation isn't just dangerous. It's personal.
Because somewhere in the documents and the dead ends and the thirty-five-year-old secrets is the answer to a question Ethan has been asking his whole life — about the father who disappeared before he was born, about the land on the east road he's visited seventeen times and never been able to explain, about who he is when the badge is the only thing holding him together.
Dominic Starr has always been the problem. The rival who knew exactly how to push every button. The partner who saw through every wall. The man who stepped back eight years ago and has been regretting it ever since. He's not stepping back again. Old rivalry. New danger. One truth they've both been hiding from the start. 📖 MM Roman
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