It’s up to Max and Alpha Team to unearth secrets drowned in concrete.

Harper Vecellio has been playing a dangerous game. She’s not morally bankrupt. But her life depends on everyone around her believing so. For years, she’s defended the worst of the worst. Criminals willing to harm women, children, even their own families. But inside access gave her inside knowledge. Knowledge she leaked to the press to get her clients arrested and convicted. There was one person she trusted with the truth, and she let her down. Well, she didn’t mean to. Not much the little journalist could do in the face of actual torture. But now Harper’s on the run, and the last person she ever wanted to see again is here to help. And maybe fifteen years is a long time to hold a grudge. Especially against a high school nemesis. But it’s not like the mob had ever been all that forgiving.

If there’s one thing Max D’Amico never wanted, it was to ever set foot in Chicago again. At eighteen, he enlisted in the Marines and happily disappeared. He figured the one place they would never find him was in whatever hell-hole the US government dumped him in. And it worked. For fifteen years. But a post-separation career with Anderson Security brought him back to the Windy City, and with it came the secrets and danger he was desperate to escape. Now, he finds himself face-to-face with Chicago’s biggest crime family: his own. And their latest target is the family’s legal expert, Max’s high school rival. Or that’s what Harper thinks. She may protect what he’s always hated, but Max has never once hated Harper Vecellio.

As Alpha Team finds themselves pulled in too many directions chasing a sadistic arms dealer, Harper and Max discover that while real family may have nothing to do with blood, the family they’re born into will be deadly.