When their father died, Amoura and Lovie Santiago were left in the hands of a mother broken beyond repair — one who took her grief out on her daughters. Amoura bore the mental wounds, learning to swallow her pain and smile through the abuse. Lovie wore hers on her skin, the marks her mother left shaping how she saw love — violent, desperate, and always conditional.

At eighteen, Amoura ran. She promised she’d come back for her little sister, and for a while, she tried — phone calls, visits, letters. But the messages slowed… then stopped.

Now, ten years later, Amoura’s thirty-five and still haunted by the silence. Her man swore he’d find Lovie — but five years passed, and he came up empty. Desperate, Amoura turns to the one person known for finding what others can’t: Chrome Matthews, the coldest bounty hunter in the city.

Chrome doesn’t do sympathy. He does results. And when he takes Amoura’s case, he doesn’t expect it to dig into his own past — or his rival’s. Because somewhere in that same city, Crimson Reyes, a man who loves hard and burns hotter, has been crossing paths with the same ghosts.

And when Lovie finally turns up…
She isn’t the same girl Amoura remembered.
She’s bruised, broken, and half the woman she used to be — but the man she’s with won’t let her go without a fight.

The moment they find her, blood spills and rage ignites. Chrome’s calm shatters. Crimson’s fire erupts. Amoura sees what love can do when it turns violent.
And Lovie? She learns that freedom always costs something — sometimes, it costs everything.