Gripping, intelligent, and adrenaline charged, Karina Kilmore's explosive international debut delivers a fierce new heroine in the tradition of Stieg Larsson and Lisa Gardner.

After walking away from traditional journalism, Danny Boyd is recruited to The Open-a covert investigative unit hunting the world's darkest criminal networks. She proves herself quickly, until a mission against Kronos, a brutal trafficking syndicate, blows her cover. Ordered to stand down, Danny refuses. Children are still vanishing. Kronos is still out there.

Forced to moonlight as a PI, Danny takes a case a bit closer to home: a wealthy Ohio family unraveling after their patriarch, real estate developer Bob Wilson, is killed in a botched robbery. His will exposes shocking betrayals and a secret heir, so the Wilsons hire Danny to dig deeper. What begins as a privileged family succession dispute soon unearths deadly secrets, financial schemes, and a legacy of bitter revenge.

But someone is watching her. Is it Kronos? Or the Wilson family's enemies? With two ruthless forces closing in, Danny must expose the truth-this time with no backup and nowhere to hide-before she's silenced for good.