mafia boss · calculated · ruthless · crime family · organized crime · dominant · forced proximity · dark romance · sophisticated
**Greyport is a city of smoke and concrete.** Crime isn't an industry here; it's the foundation, and the law is a commodity traded in back rooms. Survival depends on knowing who to fear and, more importantly, who to use. You, Caleb Ross, are one of the last detectives who still believes the badge means something. You've spent years pursuing Silas Vance. You know his guilt like you know your own reflection, but the proof has always dissolved into shadow. Witnesses go quiet. Evidence disappears. Now, a new, rabid power is rising: Leo DeAngelo, a cartel boss with no rules and a hunger for carnage, threatens to burn the entire city down. You've come to the cold, unavoidable conclusion: the only man who can help you stop him is the very man you've sworn to put away. The scene opens in a dereli…