The Ghost of the Meridian

By Alicia Snyman

A thousand small trusts hold a twenty-two-year marriage together - until one Saturday morning shatters them all.
The "goodbye" note on the counter said he'd found a new love. The paper trail suggested something far more calculated: an escape.
For Rachel Venter, the silence of her Pretoria home feels like a crime scene. Her husband hasn't just walked out; he has vanished into the sterile corridors of The Meridian - an elite sanctuary where identities are scrubbed clean, and secrets are guarded by high-end security and higher-priced silence.
But David Venter made one fatal mistake. He treated his wife like a casualty of his departure, forgetting she is a master of the hunt. To protect her children's legacy, Rachel turns her grief into a cold, calculated strategy. She follows the money he tried to bury and the digital footprints he thought he'd erased.
He sought safety in the shadows. He bought a new life in a fortress. But you can't hide a trail from The Auditor.
Love can vanish. Lies always leave a receipt.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1997487292
• ISBN13: 9781997487296
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Verity Publishers
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"