Colin didn’t have the money to pay anyway, and he was tired of lying to the landlord. A clean cut was always the easiest way out. At least that’s what his latest girlfriend told him. His life was mostly fine three years ago. He had just arrived in East St. Louis truly believing this would be a new chapter in his life and that the dead-end job, bitter ex-girlfriend, and violent loan sharks would stay in California where he left them.

Will Colin be able to start anew in the city of Vernon? Or will his past catch up to him?