Ethan is order. Ryder is chaos. But in the silence of London, lies collect an interest rate that is far too high.
Ethan Richter is the master of simulation. A Detective for the Metropolitan Police with a brilliant future and a suffocating past in Derry, he lives an impeccable farce. To his conservative family and his precinct colleagues, he is the exemplary officer. To Ryder Kane, his intriguing neighbor, he is just "Sir Ethan"-a polished, methodical "architect." Ryder is the opposite of everything Ethan represents. An elite tattoo artist whose body is marked by ink and whose past is marked by the bars of a prison cell. He speaks with the fury of someone who has already felt the cold steel on his wrists, and he does not trust anything that carries a badge.
They shouldn't know each other.
They shouldn't touch each other.
And, definitely, they shouldn't love each other.
But between encounters, conversations about life, and nights where the masks slip away, Ethan finds himself entangled in the biggest lie of his life. The weight of what he leaves unsaid has turned his reality into an unstoppable avalanche. While investigating the secrets of the streets of Chelsea, Ethan discovers that the man next door is the centerpiece of a puzzle that could destroy his career-or perhaps not When an ex-convict's past collides with an undercover detective's reality, the only thing left standing will be the choice between the uniform and desire. Will Ethan manage to organize the chaos of his world before being buried under his own truth?