The operative she trained with was supposed to be dead. He left a trail only she could follow — and kept the one file that could destroy everything she built.
Elara Cross runs a private threat assessment firm on one principle: information is armor, and she never walks into a room without it. When someone begins systematically eliminating her clients — men with dark financial histories and darker connections — she traces the pattern to a ghost operative she trained with six years ago, officially dead in a burned intelligence operation. Caius Ashford is alive. He has been watching her firm take on these clients for eight months. He has left her exactly the evidence she needed to find him — a trail precise enough to lead her to him and no one else. What he has not given her is the piece that would end her firm entirely. She has been working toward him for three weeks. She does not know yet that the client who hired her to find the killer is one of the people Caius intends to destroy next. She will figure it out. He has been counting on it.
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