Ben Grimes dies in a flower shop in San Antonio, bleeding over the bouquet meant for his wife and daughter’s graves. A shredding round tears through his vest, glass explodes like ice, and Tony Bianco watches with a smile as Ben hits the floor. Darkness should have taken him. Instead, he wakes in a filthy alley, face-down in garbage, a rat chewing his hand. His heartbeat is wrong. His breath is wrong. His body is wrong. When he finally sees his reflection, the truth is colder than the alley air: He’s not Ben Grimes anymore. He’s Mattie Logan, a teenage hooker with terror etched into her bones. Her memories seep into him like oil: a locked office, a counsellor’s smile that never reached his eyes, a life lived in fear. When her pimp comes to collect, Ben reacts like the Marine he still is. Two dead men later, he’s running through the night in a body too small to fight with fists and too young to be believed. He becomes Jennifer Grimes, a name borrowed from the daughter he lost. But death didn’t free him. It reassigned him. Someone ordered the hit in the flower shop. Someone owned Mattie Logan. Someone wants her erased. A detective is circling. A crime syndicate is hunting. And the memories inside his new body hide a truth darker than the alley he woke in. They think they killed Ben Grimes. They think Mattie Logan is gone. They have no idea what’s walking around in her skin. A Marine with nothing left to lose, reborn in the shadows, driven by vengeance, and coming for everyone who wants to put him and Mattie Logan in the ground.
Genre: Mystery
Genre: Mystery
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