Charlie Evans thought he understood danger.
He was wrong.
Trapped in a world where loyalty is purchased in blood and trust is nothing more than a carefully maintained illusion, Charlie is no longer simply a mobster's therapist - he is a player in the game itself. And the longer he remains at Leonid Makarov's side, the harder it becomes to discern where obligation ends... and where something far more dangerous begins.
Leonid is not a man who tolerates weakness. But he is beginning to harbor one.
And it has a name.
As enemies close in and the Makarov family threatens to collapse from within, Charlie finds himself at the center of a silent war - where every choice carries the weight of consequence, and the wrong move may be his last. Because the deeper he descends into Leonid's mind, the more he uncovers that it is not only the past that haunts him...
It is what he is willing to do to keep what he has come to call his own.
Secrets will be unearthed. Loyalties will fracture. And some lines, once crossed, cannot be undone.
Because in this game, survival was never the greatest risk.
The greatest risk... is surrender.