Candace “Irish Candy” Bryne used to believe in the rules.
Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, she played it straight—through the academy, through narcotics, through every sting and seizure the city threw her way. Until the day she blew the whistle.
 
She exposed a team of rogue cops extorting local crews for protection money. What she didn’t know—what she wasn’t ready to know—was that her ex-fiancé was the one running them.
 
By the time the smoke cleared, he’d already distanced himself.
He got promoted.
She got buried.
 
They couldn’t fire her, but no one would work with her.
Her badge got cold. Her brother went missing. And her name only got mentioned in whispers.
 
Until Blade Raines showed up with an offer:
Join his task force.
No rules. No precinct. No politics. Just the dirtiest cases no one else will touch.
 
Now she’s working out of a stripped-down barroom once seized in a RICO case—her command post, her confessional, her warzone.
 
Her first case takes her to Alaska, where a series of missing persons, mutilated wildlife, and a rogue trafficking operation leads her to Vita Rota of the Alaska Bureau of Investigation and Mesa Monroe—an investigator on loan from Hawaii with island instincts and zero tolerance for slow-moving outsiders. They’re tracking the same suspect. And they’re either her next allies—or her next betrayal.
 
This isn’t just a case.
It’s the start of something new.
 
She wasn’t born a stray.
She was built from the bones up.