A gritty, hard-boiled PI noir with emotional weight.  Ever since the woman he loved took her own life, private investigator John Mathews’ world has shrunk to the bottom of a bottle on the rain-slicked streets of Portland. The fog of his addiction begins to clear when he lands a new case investigating a fire that destroyed Portland's finest art gallery, killing a man inside.

Detective Kayla Van Saint is the cop on the case. She’s sharp, by-the-book, and knew John’s ex—creating a wall of friction between them from the start. As John spirals further into Portland’s dark world of heroin addicts, teenage homeless, and sleazy strip clubs, Kayla is there to bail him out at every turn.

Then the stakes turn lethal when the gallery owner is brutally murdered, and the two must bury the hatchet and work together to solve the case. In the process, they realize they make a great team—and are falling in love.