Release ETA: February 2027
The synopsis below is preliminary and likely to change. All chapters are under review and are thus password-protected. If you are interested in being a beta reader/reviewer, please contact me so we can discuss.
After surviving the collapse of everything they’d held familiar, Lee and Amanda Stetson are sent to London for what is supposed to be a fresh start. Instead, they find themselves rebuilding from the inside out.
Lee, sidelined from field work and struggling to redefine who he is without it, accepts a new assignment as liaison between the Agency and British intelligence. Amanda throws herself into language study, photography, and the difficult work of making an unfamiliar city feel like home for their family. Their son Jamie is trying to adapt too — to new schools, new rules, and a world that suddenly feels much larger than the one he left behind.
Then a civilian airliner is shot from the sky over the Persian Gulf.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Lee is drawn into a quiet investigation surrounding the USS Vincennes and a growing pattern of anomalies no one wants acknowledged. What begins as routine liaison work slowly reveals something far more dangerous: a system built to prevent catastrophe may already have been compromised from within.
As the pressure mounts, London itself becomes a crossroads of loyalties, secrets, and unfinished grief. Old certainties begin to fracture. Institutional faith gives way to uneasy questions. And Lee and Amanda are forced to confront a possibility more frightening than any enemy operation—that the systems meant to protect them may no longer be capable of telling truth from survival.
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