Norah McNamara thought she had found the perfect man. Sure, he had his anger issues, but given his charity work, she belived Clayton Matthews' good qualities far outweighed the bad. What she didn't count on however, was the secret life he lived behind the scenes of his generous organization.​ Harley Andrews is damn good at his job. An ex-cop turned private enforcer, Harley is brought in to investigate Clayton Matthews. ​​Instead, Harley finds himself putting everything on the line to protect the bastards beautiful fiancé. After an unforseen attack during one of Clayton's charity banquets, Harley throws himself into a spray of bullets to protect Norah. And as Norah finds herself thrown into Clayton's dark world, she discovers she has only one man to count on, and it's not her fiancé. Because as it turns out, Clayton Matthews was quite The Charitable Bastard.

FBI agent Caid King has fought long and hard to end the corruption within his organization. After the fall of Clayton Matthews, he returns to New York with his head held high and his eye on the next target. He never could have imagined that the dangerous man he’s set his sights on would have ties to the beautiful blonde he found himself instantly drawn to. Jemma Saige thought she had it all figured out. Her rules for survival were simple. Keep your head down, your bags packed, your running shoes on. But when she meets a man at her local gym, their attraction threatens to break the last and most important of those rules: don’t get tied down. Now with Jemma’s secrets out in the open, and both her and Caid’s lives on the line, can they find a way to work together? Or will Caid turn his back on the runner's daughter?

Zach Murphy has a target painted on his back. When Zach's ex-wife resurfaces after years of silence, he's determined to push her out the door just as she did to him all those years ago, but she refuses to go without issuing a warning. Zach's in danger. When those around him start dying, Zach sets out on a hunt for answers and discovers a trail of clues leading back to Clayton Matthews and a dead crime boss in New York. As he searches for a connection, he's forced to turn to the one woman he never wanted to need again. The last thing Celeste wanted to do was return to the city filled with painful memories of a future she’d only ever dared dream about. When her ex-husbands name ends up at the top of a hit list, she is pulled back in to help figure out who’s targeting him before it’s too late. As old flames spark new life, Zach and his ex-wife are pursued by a deadly hunter who won’t stop until they’ve both been terminated. Corruption runs deep in the last installment of J.W. Ashley’s high-stakes suspense trilogy, where old friends and new come together to fight the final battle in a war they may not all walk away from.