She found the missing seconds in a dead woman's final recording. Then someone used his authority to order her death.
Digital-evidence analyst Seren Ward has spent twelve years trusting evidence over people. But when she discovers that footage of Mara Vey's death was surgically altered, a purge activates inside her isolated system-and an armed team comes to silence her.
The order carries Dorian Kade's authorization.
As Black Harbor's feared Director of Internal Security, Dorian should be the man hunting her. Instead, he recognizes the signature as a forgery and turns against his own command to keep Seren alive. Now the analyst who could destroy him and the dangerous man no one trusts must disappear together before the conspiracy closes every exit.
Forced into hiding, Seren follows a trail of manipulated evidence, missing authenticators, and manufactured emergencies. Dorian offers her protection-but never control over the truth. Every clue draws them deeper into the machinery behind Harbor Glass. Every choice makes their alliance more dangerous. And the attraction neither of them can afford becomes the one thing their enemies cannot predict.
To survive, Seren must decide whether the man whose name is on her death order is the only person she can trust.
Because the conspiracy does not need them guilty.
It only needs them silent.
