Richard Flannagan made a living extorting women who couldn’t afford to fight back—Influencers. OnlyFans models. YouTubers. Women with money, beauty, and public images that could be weaponized against them. Protected by his father’s badge and everyone’s fear, he always got what he wanted—until he came for River Rain.
 
River didn’t fold.
 
By the next turn of the night, Richard was dead, and the city was already preparing to make her pay for it. Before the law can bury her under his story, River turns to Black Love—a man who knows better than to trust a beautiful stranger in trouble, and better still than to trust the police moving too fast around a dead dirty man.
 
Now Black has one night to figure out who really killed Richard Flannagan, what River is hiding, and why a narcotics cop known as The Sandman seems less interested in solving his son’s murder than in putting the whole city back to sleep before morning.