The woman turned up alive. That was the easy part.Three years ago, investigative journalist Mara Fenn staked her career on a source and lost everything. Now she'sback with one assignment: a missing woman who turned up alive with a story that doesn't add up.The woman says she's fine. The building's security company says the same. Mara knows what fine looks like.This isn't it.What she uncovers isn't a missing persons case — it's a corporate surveillance operation running throughforty-three buildings across Manhattan, harvesting behavioral data, identifying targets, and quietly dismantlinglives with keys to every door.Meanwhile, the small-town case that brought her back from Galen — her own mother's murder — is movingthrough the courts. Slowly. The way justice always moves when someone without power is waiting for it.She has a source she trusts. Documentation that checks out. A story that is true in all the ways that matter.She publishes anyway.The truth usually costs something. This time it costs someone else.A gripping psychological thriller for readers who love a twisty domestic suspense novel with a femaleinvestigator you can't help but root for.