When the police call the slaughter of his mother and brother a home invasion gone bad, Mika doesn't believe it. Because he has no way to prove otherwise, he closes down, refusing to talk about what happened.<br><br>That is until Buck, a bouncer at a local bar Mika visits, convinces Mika to open up to him. When he does, Buck not only learns about the murder, but also that Mika grew up living off the grid until his father died, two years previously, at which point his family moved to the city.<br><br>They begin to bond as they try to figure out the reason behind the murders, which may revolve around the family property in the mountains. All they have to do is prove it, without being killed in the process. Only if they can will they take a chance and move their growing friendship on to something more.

Hunting a Killer

So whatever they were looking for was something flat that could be hidden in a book? A logical conclusion, he thought, as he packed them into the bag—although not necessarily the correct one.


Taking the second bag, he went down to what had been his mother’s bedroom. There wasn’t much he wanted from there—the scrapbooks she’d made containing the story of their lives before they’d moved down to the city, and the family photos hanging on the walls. He paused as he took them down, looking at the one of the four of them, taken a month before his father had died. They were standing in front of the house, his parents in the center, arms around each other, with Reko and Mika on either side.


If you had been more careful we’d still be living there, not down here. One misstep and…He clenched his hands. I miss you. We all do…did. He felt his eyes tear up and wiped away one that crept down his cheek.


Chapter 7