She wanted to be forgotten.
For seven years, Lena Ashford has lived off-grid in the Maine wilderness, working as a anonymous archival restorer, dead to the world and the world dead to her. No phone. No internet. No past. She fled her father—reclusive tech billionaire Julian Crane—after a childhood spent buried in paranoia, secret rooms, and whispered warnings about “them.” She told herself he was crazy. She told herself she was free.
Then the call came at 3:17 AM.
Her father’s voice, cracked and desperate, against a soundtrack of gunfire: “They found me. The key is the lullaby. Don’t trust anyone.”
Then silence.
Now she must return.
To New York. To the mansion where her childhood ended. To a funeral with a closed casket and a medical examiner’s report that lies. To a hidden vault that contains her father’s final confession—and the names of the most powerful people in America.
But she is not alone.
She has 72 hours to guess a password she doesn’t know. She has a disgraced hostage negotiator who sees too much. She has a half-brother who wants the estate locked immediately. And she has a killer in an FBI windbreaker who left blood on a dumbwaiter rope.
The truth will not set her free.
It will make her the most hunted woman in the world.
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