Favors and debts. Blood and sacrifice. The good and the bad. I can't have some and not the rest.

I can't have it all.

This place and these men have seeped into me, and not even my blades can cut them out. But Rook, Corvus, and Grey aren't the only ones keeping me up at night.

There's Diesel St. Crow, an imminent gang war, and an anonymous shadow from my past. Each one clinging to my bones as irrevocably as my own shadow. Any of them could be the end of me unless I do something about it.

It's time for me to show them I'm not a toy to be played with. I'm not just Ava Jade Mason anymore. I am Sparrow. I am Ghost. I am motherf*cking AJ. I am the queen they've all been waiting for.

And what do queens do?

It's time for some new rules in Thorn Valley, and I'm going to be the one making them.