book cover of What Did They Fear?
 

What Did They Fear?

(2026)
(The first book in the Firefly series)
A novel by

 
 
She helps the victims. He investigates the dead. Now they're both marked for murder.
For ten years, Angel Tomkins has chased other people's ghosts on her true-crime podcast,
Avenging Angel, giving voice to victims the system forgot. Except for the one case she can't crack: her sister, who went to the beach one ordinary night and never came home. Angel never shows her face and never stays anywhere long. Until someone rams her Kombi over a cliff with her inside.

Forensic pathologist Whitney Callahan and his identical triplet brothers have spent twenty years searching for their missing sister, Charlotte. The botched investigation made Whitney a suspect and a ruthless journalist destroyed his reputation. He trusts no one, especially cops and reporters. After hauling a reckless podcaster back from certain death, he hoped that was the last he'd see of her.

Then the killer comes back to finish the job.

With a rogue senior cop on the run and local police compromised, Whitney shatters every rule he lives by. He hides Angel in his gated community home where no one can touch her. Where she's dangerously close to his secret case files. Where every heated look makes it harder to keep his distance.

Forced into close quarters, they start connecting the dots between two cold cases nine years apart. But someone wants the past to stay buried. The closer they get to the truth, the more lethal it becomes. Because the killer isn't afraid of what Angel has done. He’s terrified of what she already knows. She just doesn't realize it yet.

She's never needed anyone. He's never trusted anyone. But bringing light to their darkness becomes the only thing worth fighting for.

WHAT DID THEY FEAR? is a high-stakes romantic thriller with forced proximity, reluctant allies-to-lovers tension, and a slow-burn romance that explodes when it finally ignites. First in the Firefly Series with crossover characters from Alpha Tactical Ops, Wolf Security, and Koolaroo Ranch. For readers who crave fierce heroines, tortured heroes, cold-case mysteries with jaw-dropping twists, and couples who fall hard while fighting for their lives.



Genre: Romantic Suspense



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