If You Run, I Follow

By Julian Mercer

She paid to be hunted. She never agreed to what came after.

Mara Venn makes a living finding the weaknesses hidden inside supposedly secure systems. Her life is controlled, predictable-and increasingly impossible to feel.

Then she discovers VANTA.

For seventy-two hours, Mara will be pursued by a stranger chosen specifically for her. The rules are precise. The boundaries are negotiated. She can stop the experience at any moment.

And when the clock reaches zero, her hunter must disappear forever.

Elias Rourke is patient, observant, and far too good at understanding the woman he has been assigned to chase. What begins as controlled fear becomes something neither of them was supposed to want.

But Mara soon notices something buried beneath VANTA's carefully designed game.

The company knows more about her than it should.

Elias knew more before the pursuit began than he admitted.

And when the seventy-two hours end, someone is still following her.

Only this time, there are no rules.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFM6H9QY
• ISBN13: 9798232464783
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Julian Mercer
• Length: 718 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.6" x 5.5"