Life is tough but Sergeant Jeremy Connor is tougher. Riley County, North Carolina is recovering from a year of hell when devastation strikes again, and the Sheriff's Department is working the frontlines. On top of keeping the community safe, there's Jeremy's greatest responsibility: raising his daughter. Alone. Seeing local women turn up dead is enough to shake any father, even a veteran sheriff's deputy. After years of loneliness, the timing couldn't be worse to let another woman into his life. But he'd have better luck resisting gravity than resisting Lucia Ramirez, the first to prove there's still a heart beneath his bullet proof vest. For the first time in over a decade, serving and protecting isn't enough to satisfy him anymore. But someone to love means someone to lose... Book 4 in the Lock and Key Series