Hard Lean

He told me to run. He didn't tell me he was alive.

Six weeks ago, I watched Rowen Vale die in that river. I've been hiding ever since—a ghost of a waitress in a nowhere diner, drowning in grief and cheap coffee.

Then comes the message: ALIVE.
Then comes his voice: "Run."
Then come the men with guns.

Rowen isn't dead. He's just become someone else's weapon.

Forced undercover by federal agents hunting Cassian Roarke, Rowen has infiltrated the Hellridge Crew—violent puppets in Roarke's expanding emp...