Mara Voss cleans magical crime scenes for a living. She knows staged backlash when she sees it.
When a powerful financier dies in a locked penthouse, the scene screams private magical disaster. Mara sees the lie under the blood. Hidden beneath the damage is an old contract sequence she recognizes from the worst mistake of her life.
Then the witnesses start dying.
To stop the next body from dropping, Mara has to work with dangerous contract specialist Lucan Vale and follow a trail through stripped offices, hidden ledgers, and a transfer network built to erase people cleanly. Someone is moving more than documents. Someone is protecting a system that should never have surfaced.
And this time, Mara is already inside it.