In a quiet Scottish village where everyone knows your name, secrets are the deadliest currency of all. Detective Luca Ferreira learned early that nothing is ever as it seems. Growing up surrounded by whispers, lies, and uneasy silences, he escaped the shadows of his childhood—only to spend his adult life hunting the truth as a police detective. But some mysteries refuse to stay buried. When Luca was young, he fell deeply, dangerously in love with Andrew—the boy who made him believe in something more than the darkness around them. There was just one problem: Andrew’s father was a man surrounded by mystery, a man who’s secrets weren’t just his own . Years later, as Luca edges closer to exposing a deadly truth, the past comes rushing back with a vengeance. The clues point somewhere impossible—towards Andrew, towards the family Luca once trusted, and towards secrets that were never meant to be uncovered. Because Luca is about to discover that the greatest betrayal isn’t just hiding in his town… …it’s in his own blood.