Borderlanders are vanishing without a trace …

People are afraid. A delicate plan to reunify two fractured nations hangs by a thread.

It’s been eleven years since Bowie Ryland fled Anarchist Underground, defecting from Dunwyn’s most infamous criminal gang. But his comfortable life as the king’s adoptive brother feels more like captivity. Plagued by terrible memories, even his most self-destructive habits no longer provide the escape he craves.

When a mysterious enemy threatens his loved ones, Bowie trades his life to protect them. Held hostage by a brutal, alluring secret society, he discovers a tenuous ally in another prisoner. Kayan Culner is everything Bowie isn’t – affable, trusting, guileless. He’s undeniably dangerous, and indelibly fascinating. Even once they escape, growing closer on the run, Bowie can’t shake the feeling Kayan’s old allegiances run deep.

With danger and treachery mounting, he begins to fear the only way to save the peaceful world he has sworn to protect might be to embrace the dark talents he left behind in Anarchist Underground.