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New York, 1994.
Five years ago, Mike Wheeler pushed Will Byers away with a brutal rejection, convinced it was the only way they could both live a “normal” life. Now Mike is an NYPD officer drowning in debt and haunted by his past, using violence to hide his own cowardice. Will, meanwhile, is Manhattan’s art-world darling, beautiful and brilliant, yet hollowed out from the inside, slowly destroying himself with opium and toxic entanglements.
When a Mafia money-laundering operation turns Will into the only living witness, fate mocks them again. Mike is assigned to protect the person he once swore he would cherish, and then shattered with his own hands.
Caught between the crossfire of the criminal underworld and the ghosts of the Upside Down that never truly left, it was only when a bullet buried itself in the chest of the person he loved most that Mike finally understood how merciless fate could be, teaching him the meaning of love at the exact moment it demanded the ultimate price.
But can a heart that has been broken ever deliver mercy to the one who destroyed it?
Gunfights, crime thriller, and slow burn, freaky, heavy angst with an opening of Club Byler 💙💛.