In His Wake

Book One of The Wake Series

The city didn’t break her. It showed her what it would cost to survive.

Sam learned early that silence can be a kind of armour. When violence tears through her life and leaves her fighting to stay standing, she disappears into the edges of a world ruled by power, loyalty and men who don’t make empty promises.

Derek Moretti is one of them.

Controlled. Calculating. Untouchable–until he isn’t.

He doesn’t believe in mercy.

He doesn’t get close enough to lose control.

But Sam isn’t something he planned for.

What begins as distance turns into something far more dangerous–trust, built slowly, in a city where survival always comes with a cost.

As the balance of power shifts and old threats resurface, Sam is forced to decide who she’s willing to become to survive.

And Derek is left with something he’s never had to face before:

Protecting someone without owning them.

This isn’t a story about being saved.

It’s about what survives after everything else burns.