When his boyfriend vanishes into the Witness Security Program, a teenage landscaper drives into the heart of a cartel war to find him—only to discover that the people protecting Nate might be just as dangerous as the ones hunting him.

Ezra Cain knows two things: He loves Nate Kipp, and Nate didn’t just run away. When Nate’s house is scrubbed clean and his existence erased overnight, Ezra follows a trail of breadcrumbs—a sketchbook, a lighter, and a map—to Sacramento. He discovers Nate is the key witness against a brutal cartel leader. To save him, Ezra must infiltrate a federal courthouse under siege, outsmart a mole within the U.S. Marshals, and prove that being a "witness" doesn’t mean you have to be a victim.