Night Approach

A missing pilot. A trail of dead women. And two damaged guardians who were never meant to want each other.

Every afternoon in Battery Park, Samira and Kenji sit on opposite benches-strangers except for one thing: their boys are inseparable. Samira is brilliant, invasive, and hiding a past she can't outrun. Kenji is a former NYPD detective turned fixer, all calm control and watchful silence. Neither trusts easily. Neither wants to want anyone.

But when a young pilot named Nadia Kaur dies under suspicious circumstances, their uneasy coexistence explodes into partnership. Nadia's trail is full of contradictions-sealed records, erased complaints, missing evidence, and whispers of a smell clinging to her clothes after certain flights. The deeper Samira and Kenji dig, the clearer it becomes: Nadia wasn't the first. She won't be the last.

Their investigation draws the attention of powerful enemies-airline executives, federal agencies, and someone far closer. Someone Samira remembers only in flashes. Someone Kenji has hunted before.

As the case unravels, so do they.

Their attraction is combustible, born of obsession, grief, and the desperate fear of losing the only person who might understand them. But desire doesn't mean safety. Because the closer they get to the truth, the closer the killer gets to them.

A dark romantic thriller about survival, vengeance, and ruinous love.

Graphic content advisory: murder, trauma, coercion, and an intense age-gap romance with power-exchange dynamics.