The fire tells him how. The money tells her who. This time she's the one driving into the dark — and the trail is older than she is.
Roan Holbrook reads burns for a living, but this case doesn't leave char. It leaves shell companies — a chain of paper faces built to make dirty money look clean, and it's Mara's world now, not his. He rides shotgun. She drives.
Mara Ellison reads money, and she works the chain link by link through a 2 a.m. tail and a dead-drop until it finally gives her what she's chased all season: a single ledger entry that ties the man at the top of it all to the old fire, the first one, the one that started everything.
Not a new crime. An old one.
The laundering doesn't begin with them. It runs back years — a machine that was already spinning long before Roan's dog ever sat and stared. And somewhere in that old paper is a detail that stops Mara's breath: she's been on a watchlist since before any of this began, flagged and tracked from the start, and the name on the order that marked her is one she'd have trusted with her life.
She and Roan land the money-link and slip the tail clean — and in the parked car after, with adrenaline and nowhere to put it, one true thing finally gets said. It opens something. It resolves nothing. She wasn't safe because she was good at her job. She was marked before page one.
Clean Money is Episode 5 of Point of Origin, a high-velocity K-9 romantic-suspense serial — each episode a complete case you can finish in a sitting, each one turning the bigger fire a notch hotter. Two pros, maximum tension, closed door. For readers of Lori Ryan and Cristin Harber.
A new episode every week. Start the burn.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Roan Holbrook reads burns for a living, but this case doesn't leave char. It leaves shell companies — a chain of paper faces built to make dirty money look clean, and it's Mara's world now, not his. He rides shotgun. She drives.
Mara Ellison reads money, and she works the chain link by link through a 2 a.m. tail and a dead-drop until it finally gives her what she's chased all season: a single ledger entry that ties the man at the top of it all to the old fire, the first one, the one that started everything.
Not a new crime. An old one.
The laundering doesn't begin with them. It runs back years — a machine that was already spinning long before Roan's dog ever sat and stared. And somewhere in that old paper is a detail that stops Mara's breath: she's been on a watchlist since before any of this began, flagged and tracked from the start, and the name on the order that marked her is one she'd have trusted with her life.
She and Roan land the money-link and slip the tail clean — and in the parked car after, with adrenaline and nowhere to put it, one true thing finally gets said. It opens something. It resolves nothing. She wasn't safe because she was good at her job. She was marked before page one.
Clean Money is Episode 5 of Point of Origin, a high-velocity K-9 romantic-suspense serial — each episode a complete case you can finish in a sitting, each one turning the bigger fire a notch hotter. Two pros, maximum tension, closed door. For readers of Lori Ryan and Cristin Harber.
A new episode every week. Start the burn.
Genre: Romantic Suspense