prologue: When It All Went Wrong

One lie ruined his life. Another might save it.

Expelled for a bullying scandal he didn't cause, Jake lands in L.A. with a past he can't outrun. He tries to keep his head down, until he falls for Kate...and catches the wrong attention from Alice, his godparents' daughter.

Then a ghost from New York shows up with a threat: run a few "errands" for the mafia, or end up in the kind of trouble you don't walk away from.

Now Jake's trapped between two girls, two lives and two truths that could destroy everything.