Prologue

Lighthearted Alexa Clarke thinks she can settle down in Florida after retiring from a previous life of crime. But when her best friend, Annie, is in trouble with a gang in Michigan after a grocery store robbery-gone-wrong, she finds herself plunged back into her old life when she and her Michigan mom-friends end up working for the mysterious gangbanger, Rio, who already knows exactly who she is. Can she help her friends without revealing her past? How will she stay out of suspicion when things get risky? And when she starts catching feelings for the elusive boss, will she be able to escape danger when things start going wrong?