She’s been carrying a secret for eighteen months. It’s time to put it down. Mara Voss spent four years doing analytical work for an organisation she told herself she didn’t need to fully understand. Then a misdirected file made the destination of her work impossible to ignore, and she walked out on a Tuesday and didn’t look back. Eighteen months later, she has a clean life, a legitimate consulting practice, and a weight she hasn’t been able to set down. The data she carries is a liability to some people and an asset to others. She doesn’t yet know which ones to trust. Then she goes to a criminal compound outside Rome to rescue her best friend, and finds herself in the orbit of Dimitri Sokolov — whose name she already knows from a file she was never supposed to see.
The world Mara navigates is smaller than the wars in Books One and Two: a bar in Zurich, a hotel room in Geneva, a kitchen table in Milan where three people build a picture no single one of them could have built alone. And in Rome, slowly, carefully, a person at the edge of her own picture who has been waiting — as she has — for conditions that are finally close enough to begin.
He framed problems in terms of what the data couldn’t see rather than what it could. She noticed. She’s been keeping a folder since the conference in Milan. So has he. Dark romance with an analytical heroine. Slow burn. Parallel exits from the same world. The specific intimacy of two people who find each other’s attention completely legible. Part of the Daughters of Ruin series. Standalone; enhanced by Books One and Two.
Genre: Romance
The world Mara navigates is smaller than the wars in Books One and Two: a bar in Zurich, a hotel room in Geneva, a kitchen table in Milan where three people build a picture no single one of them could have built alone. And in Rome, slowly, carefully, a person at the edge of her own picture who has been waiting — as she has — for conditions that are finally close enough to begin.
He framed problems in terms of what the data couldn’t see rather than what it could. She noticed. She’s been keeping a folder since the conference in Milan. So has he. Dark romance with an analytical heroine. Slow burn. Parallel exits from the same world. The specific intimacy of two people who find each other’s attention completely legible. Part of the Daughters of Ruin series. Standalone; enhanced by Books One and Two.
Genre: Romance
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