Told from dual points of view, nineteen-year-old Noah Hansen, the police chief's son, buries his trauma beneath drug use, impulsive risks, and dangerous sexual encounters.
Delane Marsh, a loyal but naive college student who drives herself toward perfection, arrives one night at the wrong place and is attacked.
Silas Thorne is among the attackers: a cold heir set to take over his uncle's wealth and companies, long infatuated with Noah, and practiced in manipulation and underhanded deals.
Noah saves the stranger through a one-time bargain, offering his body as the stake and assuming their paths will separate for good.
Instead, the arrangement keeps pulling him into both Delane's life and Silas's, while a predator from his past moves close enough to ruin him.
As addiction, suicidal thoughts, and the violence around him press in, Noah cannot tell whether he will survive.
