Chapter 1 New York was on fire. Maybe it always had been. Maybe the only difference to this building screaming up in a whirling golden flame was that they couldn’t shut their eyes to it anymore. There it was, out in the open, set ablaze in the public eye. This wasn’t your everyday kitchen fire. …
Chapter 1 A sea of wrinkled umbrellas were blocking the street. Puddles lit up in slick mirror images of headlights in rain. Blue plumes tumbled over a crowd which had huddled together in fear and confusion. They were confused but they couldn’t hold it back, that fatal recognition that something was starting up again. When …
Chapter 1 Special Agent Bob Fairfax was no spring chicken, that much was true. In fact, his chicken was about to be roasted. Not that he had ever really been a career man, instead content enough to whittle away at the edifice of crime from the comfort of a field agent’s desk for his near …
Chapter 1 It was somewhere between midnight and morning when Chase tore through the thick gray shroud and came up on the last road into Binghamton: A total zipsville town upstate, home to secrets, lies, and dead people. Her black Lincoln moved silent and smooth through the sleet. Well oiled, well tuned. The FBI was …
Chapter 1 Inside the grand expanse of her cubicle, a change bled through the air. It came immediate but silent, like a cloud covering the sun. It was Thursday afternoon and ASAC Hogan was due to storm in there at any minute, crash into Chase’s cubicle, and ruin her day. He’d come down on her …
