Officer Jack has spent his whole life on the same few streets. So has Chris Carter?his oldest friend, and the man whose foundation keeps the neighborhood alive. A free clinic. Scholarships. A store saved from foreclosure. To everyone in Ashford, Chris is a saint.

Then a sixteen-year-old turns up dead in an empty lot, a needle in his arm, and Jack can't make the lie fit. The boy was one of Chris's scholarship kids. So was the one before him. And the one before that.

The governor wants the file buried. The FBI wants Jack to pick a side. Everyone keeps telling him the same thing: the right people are already doing the right work, so mind your own business. But the deeper Jack digs, the clearer it gets?the hand that feeds the neighborhood is the same hand that's burying its children.

To bring Chris down, Jack will have to destroy the thing keeping hundreds of people alive. And he still isn't sure he's right.

A lean, literary noir about loyalty, mercy, and the cost of doing the right thing?when the right thing saves no one.