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Growing up a Halstead was never easy - not when their father's temper was a storm and their mother was the only shelter they had. But when their mother passed. There was no anchor anymore.
Will and Jay escaped as soon as they could, cutting ties with Pat Halstead and the pain he left behind.
But Olivia "Liv" Halstead stayed.
She stayed because she didn't know how not to.
She stayed until the bruises became too familiar and the house too dangerous to call a home.
At nineteen, she ran - to Chicago, to Will, to a life she built with her own two hands.
A police academy graduate.
A survivor.
A fighter.
Four years later, NYPD can't hold her anymore. When Intelligence comes knocking, Liv returns to Chicago, stepping into a world where her brothers are backs, her past is waiting, and the Halstead family wounds are far from healed.
Now, the three siblings must rebuild what was shattered, face the father who broke them, and learn what it truly means to be a family again.
Because some scars don't fade.
And some stories don't end - they begin again.