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One bullet and a three-story drop. An upstanding cop sentenced to life in prison. Case closed. For FBI Agent Jordan Bening, danger lurks at every turn. Always has. In the years since his mother's murder, his life has been about vindication, defense—and finding evidence to overturn one resounding courtroom gavel. Not only because the guilty verdict put his best friend's favorite uncle in prison, but because he knows the real murderer is still out there. Watching. Waiting. And the killer is sending a message: Silence has a price. FBI Agent McKenna Moore doesn't believe her uncle—a solid, dependable, well-liked, and hardworking former detective with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department—could have committed murder. It's a truth she's never uttered to anyone, especially Jordan. Not even after their impromptu reunion and subsequent drunken nuptials. When the murder of the wife of Charlotte's most influential family brings Jordan and McKenna together for the first time since the wedding, the pair is plunged into an investigation that takes an unexpected turn from bad to worse with evidence that shouldn't exist. Evidence that should be safely locked away and labeled in another case. Another crime. Evidence that leads right to both of them. To a moment in time when they made their choices and vowed to keep the silence. He left. She stayed. They were never supposed to reunite.