When the governor's daughter witnesses a murder, she becomes the target in a deadly conspiracy that stretches back generations.

Inali Grayson has always lived in the shadow of her powerful father, Louisiana's governor Cyrus Grayson. But when her best friend is murdered at a Mardi Gras celebration and Inali becomes the only eyewitness, she finds herself at the center of a deadly conspiracy that has claimed more lives than she knows-including her mother's six years earlier.

Damien Caine is a professional assassin who never misses. When he's hired to eliminate Inali before she can testify, something stops his finger on the trigger. Instead of completing his contract, he makes the unprecedented decision to protect her, risking everything he's built.

As they go into hiding, Inali discovers her memories of the murder have been magically tampered with, and that the powerful men who run Baton Rouge from the shadows-known as the Quad-will stop at nothing to keep their secrets. Worse, she learns the truth about her family is darker than she ever imagined.

With a team of unlikely allies wielding newly awakened magical abilities, Inali and Damien race to uncover decades of corruption before the Quad can silence them permanently. But as they work together in such close quarters, the attraction between them becomes impossible to deny-even though their developing feelings may be the most dangerous threat of all.