prologue

Ethan Parker leaves behind the noise of New York in search of peace.
He finds it-in an old building full of history, polite neighbors, and the soft whisper of rain against the window.
Apartment 3B feels like the perfect retreat: a blank slate, a new beginning, rules he writes to keep himself grounded.

But Ethan doesn't know that someone is already watching him from the shadows.
And that he's become part of a game-one he didn't create, and where the rules are not his to set.