The Second Witness: A Thriller
When EMT Callie Rhodes pockets a black thumb drive handed to her by a dying man, she expects paperwork and an unanswered question. What she finds instead are stitched-together surveillance clips, a woman who moves like Callie and yet is not, and a quiet machinery that edits memory and erases names. Someone is watching the edges of her life-and they are careful, practiced, and willing to remove anything that gets too close.
A pulse-quickening thriller about identity, memory, and the cost of seeing what others hide.
Callie is a working responder with a steady hand and a stubborn sense of duty; when a dead man passes her a drive, she chooses to look. That choice pulls open a city's secret net of footage, false flags, and disappearances.
The footage shows a woman who knows Callie's face, then refuses to be captured cleanly. Childhood reflections in a kitchen mirror and clips time-stamped for days yet to come force Callie to ask: is this a twin, a frame, or a frame-up?
Allies and dangers blur: Detective Morano's questions arrive with polite pressure, Ben hacks at the edges of the net, and Ellis the archivist keeps film that remembers what people want to forget.
Tight, atmospheric scenes-hotel chaos, rain-slicked streets, a break-in that smells of hospital antiseptic-build to a conspiracy that treats identity like evidence you can refile.
For readers who love lean, cinematic suspense with a strong, fiercely human heroine and surprises that land like a slap-The Second Witness is a dark, propulsive novel about how a single image can unmake a life.
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