He is the mafia prince of Oklahoma, heir to a birthright with none of the glamour people expect and every reason to hate the life.
When war breaks out between his family and the Aryan Brotherhood, he is forced into hiding in a remote Missouri town even more isolated than his own.
The only bright side is Micah, the boy who once shared his home and whom he spent his childhood protecting from a violent father, until Micah's mother grew sick of that man and ran.
Micah is no longer the shy, frightened kid from those years; he is still small, but confident enough to tell the homophobic killers the prince works with exactly what he thinks of them.
Seeing him again makes a better self feel less buried, and it offers a chance to win Micah back if the numbness of a violent life can finally give way, even though Micah's way of helping is nothing he expected.