Nora Miles receives a devastating medical prognosis giving her only six months to live, followed immediately by her unfaithful boyfriend dumping a million-dollar debt into her lap and vanishing. Facing vicious enforcers in an alley, she is rescued by Evan Kane, a quiet former schoolmate who has risen to become the most feared enforcer of the Stuart syndicate.
Evan offers to pay off her creditors if she helps him navigate underworld operations, unlocking Nora's dormant survival instincts in the city's neon-lit shadows. As violent gang wars escalate and the syndicate patriarch's jealous daughter attempts to eliminate her, Nora finds fierce tenderness beneath Evan's lethal facade, risking her remaining days to seize control of their destiny.
