Jazz and Blood

Detective Cole Bennett doesn’t do complicated, not since grief carved a hollow in his chest. Protect the witness, keep feelings out of it, deliver her alive to the stand. Simple. Until Seraphine refuses to hide and the city’s carnival heartbeat throws masks over enemies and friends alike.

As Mardi Gras crescendos, threats multiply: a bouquet of black roses left backstage, a patrol car that always arrives too late, a club owner whose smile hides debts written in blood. Someone inside the department is feeding the mob her every move. The only thing Cole can trust is Seraphine’s fierce will—and the way her music quiets the ghosts he swore he’d never let go.

When masked kidnappers snatch Seraphine on the eve of the parade, Cole tears through the roaring streets, chasing a van through beads, brass, and fireworks. In a city where secrets travel on the wind and justice drowns in river fog, love may be the only map that points them home.

Jazz and Blood is a sultry, high-stakes romance where the soundtrack is a heartbeat and every note could be your last.