Homicide detective Jesse Stone knows Wilkson is built on secrets, but nothing prepares her for the night a savage attack tears open the line between the city’s polished surface and the darkness living underneath it.

When one of Jesse’s own teammates, Caleb Reyes, is nearly destroyed by something no one wants to name, the case stops being just another investigation. A missing bartender. A hidden journal. A woman running from a dead bloodline. A city threaded with buried routes, quiet corruption, and old power that was never truly gone. And at the center of it all, a queen who believes Wilkson was always meant to belong to her.

To stop her, Jesse and her team will have to survive a war that turns the city itself into a battlefield. As fear spreads through Wilkson and the dead roads under its streets begin to wake, Jesse learns the most terrifying truth of all: this didn’t begin with the first body.

It began with what the city was willing to hide.

Touched is a dark urban fantasy thriller packed with supernatural suspense, buried secrets, vampire politics, and a homicide team forced to fight for their city before it becomes something unrecognizable.