When bookseller Adrien English opens his store one Monday morning, he expects the usual: overdue invoices, dusty shelves, maybe the faint hope of a customer.

He does not expect the police.

Robert Hersey—Adrien’s employee, boyhood pal, and all-around mistake—has been brutally murdered. And Adrien is the LAPD’s prime suspect.

Detective Jake Riordan is ambitious, closeted, and under pressure to close the case fast. From his perspective, Adrien has motive, opportunity, and more than a few secrets. Is one of those secrets murder?

But the more Jake investigates, the less certain Adrien’s guilt becomes—and the harder it is to ignore his growing attraction to the man he’s supposed to arrest.

As anonymous threats escalate and a chilling message—our fatal shadows that walk by us still—appears, it becomes clear that Robert’s death was only the beginning. Someone is watching Adrien. Someone with unfinished business.

To survive, Adrien will have to uncover the truth about Robert’s secret life—and trust the one man who might either save him…or destroy him.

In the sharp, suspenseful debut of this classic gay mystery series, murder is only the first complication.