Shadows Don't Sleep

Between Nashville's music and Miami's heat shadows never sleep-and neither does the past.When tragedy strikes college student Tavin Walker is forced back into his father Lorenzo's criminal empire-a world he swore he'd left behind. After a single gunshot claims the woman he loves Tavin must navigate a treacherous path between vengeance and redemption in a deadly underworld that stretches from Nashville's hidden corners to Miami's neon-lit streets.Caught between family loyalty and federal heat between love lost and revenge sought Tavin discovers that in his father's world loyalty is currency betrayal is survival and some shadows grow stronger in the light. As rival families circle and old debts come due he must decide: Will he become the monster his father created or the man Ciarra believed he could be?From author Linda Lynne Porter creator of the inspiring memoir Peeling Back the Peach comes this gripping urban thriller-the first installment in The Shadows Trilogy. Shadows Don't Sleep explores how far we'll go to protect what's ours whether we can escape what we're born into and the price of survival when you're caught between two worlds.A powerful tale of family loyalty and redemption set against the contrasting backdrops of Nashville's music city facade and Miami's tropical darkness where every alliance is temporary every shadow hides a threat and the past never truly dies.Book One of The Shadows TrilogyComing Next: Shadows Don't Forgive (December 2025) and Shadows Don't Die (January 2026)Perfect for fans of urban fiction Southern crime thrillers and complex family sagas.