COLD OPEN: Psychological suspense thriller

By Morgana P. Frost

She married the most powerful man in media. She's about to broadcast his darkest secret to the world.

Vera Hale knows exactly why she married Julian - the door he opened, the life he offered, the rooms she'd never seen from the wrong side of the glass. Seven years later, she knows something else: her husband's empire has a basement no search engine can find.

A forgotten logout. A folder called THE GREEN ROOM. And a live platform where the richest men in America pay in untraceable currency to direct sessions no one survives - and where the girls arrive with passports that aren't theirs and leave with a status next to their names: COMPLIANT.

To destroy him, Vera must learn the dark web from zero - Tor, Monero, the twelve words that open a wallet - and become a little bit of the house she intends to burn down. But Julian Hale has been planning since the day he met her. He knows about the laptop. He knows about the technician. He knows about the wife playing detective in her own marriage.

What he doesn't know is that Vera stopped drinking the water four nights ago.

A twisting, gasp-inducing domestic suspense thriller for readers who loved Gone Girl and The Last Mrs. Parrish - with the deep-web education of Dark Web and the moral gut-punch of a story told from inside the machine.

The room forgets. This one doesn't.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHV9JWC3
• ISBN13: 9798171995263
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"