A mad man. A lawyer. And a shadowed monster between them.

But sometimes...sometimes, the real monsters exist in the flesh. Jax and Carter are two stepbrothers. Carter's father is the Bratva's strategist and the one who sends him away to Exodus, an asylum, where he dies at eighteen. News of his death leaves Jaxon reeling, feeling betrayed and abandoned, forcing him to run states away from New York. Now, five years later with his own law firm, Jaxon takes his first criminal case since college, coming face to face with the boy he fell in love with...except he's no longer a boy, but a man. He learns what really happened five years ago and he gets all the answers about Carter he's ever wanted. Clearing Carter's name of murder? Easy. Protecting him from his blood thirsty father? Challenging. Can he protect Carter from Alexei...better yet, can he protect Carter from the monster of his own mind?