Iso Brooks is dead. At least that’s what Briar South medical records say. Set up by the very people he trusted with everything he’d built, he becomes a ghost, a dead man with one mission, reclaiming his life and destroying everyone who had a part in his demise. Survival comes with a fee though. He doesn’t return the same. Silence is his language and frigid is his temperature. Then he encounters Liora Pierce—morally gray, emotionally detached, and lethal in her own right. She was never supposed to be what warmed a dead man’s heart. Somewhere between vengeance, violence, and stolen moments in the midst of chaos, they build something neither of them expected. As his hit list grows and Briar South business attempts to drag him back to familiar territories, Iso is forced to decide if it’s worth risking it all. Surviving death is one thing, but learning to live afterward is the hardest part.