New Start

By Celiel Dreadmyre

A second chance was supposed to make her disappear. Instead, it put her exactly where they wanted her.

Sarah Jenkins has spent years living under a clean name, careful routines, and a past she refuses to touch. New Start Inc. looks like the perfect hiding place: a quiet corporate campus built for people who need to begin again. The rules are strict, the security is constant, and nobody asks too many questions. For Sarah, that seems like the price of safety.

Then a name from her old life resurfaces. Robert Kells. A scandal breaks open. A colleague vanishes. The office locks down without warning. No phones. No exits. No explanation that anyone inside can trust.

When Arthur Finch is found dead and his hidden research points to Sterling Corp's secret project, Sarah realizes New Start was never a refuge. It was a selection system. The people inside were not being forgiven. They were being studied, shaped, and prepared for something far darker than ordinary corporate corruption.

Now Sarah has to move through sealed offices, service tunnels, broken surveillance feeds, and the ruins of her own buried identity. The skills that once made Alexandra Hayes dangerous may be the only reason anyone survives-but using them means becoming the person she tried to leave behind.

Tense, atmospheric, and built around corporate paranoia, hidden identity, and biotech conspiracy, New Start is a psychological thriller about reinvention, control, and the cost of surviving a system designed to own your second chance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW89DYV9
• ISBN13: 9798255106981
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"