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Nora Vance doesn’t believe in coincidences; she believes in cold, hard calculations. As a top-tier investigator for Aegis Global Insurance, she’s built a cynical but lucrative career out of exposing the lies of desperate men. But a fifty-million-dollar art gallery fire introduces her to her most dangerous adversary yet: Julian Mercer. He’s devastatingly charming, suspiciously calm, and standing amidst the ashes of his ruined legacy. Nora is convinced he orchestrated the blaze, but the closer she gets to this enigmatic gallery owner, the more the lines between predator and prey begin to blur. What starts as a high-stakes hunt for insurance fraud quickly spirals into a lethal game of cat and mouse, unearthing a shadowy conspiracy and a cold-case murder that hits far too close to home. In a neo-noir world where truth is a fluid currency and everyone has a price, Nora must decide if Julian is the architect of a deadly lie, or the only man who can help her survive it. Will she burn him to the ground, or let the fiery, forbidden tension between them consume her first?
