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Nadia Kovar makes death look natural. For five years, she has cleaned scenes no one else wants to see—quiet endings that need to stay quiet. She removes the questions. She leaves behind plausibility. When a young investigative journalist is found dead in her apartment, Nadia expects another routine job. But someone has already been there. Hidden evidence reveals a pattern: witnesses, researchers, and whistleblowers dying under suspiciously clean circumstances. All ruled accidental. All closed quickly. All quietly convenient. And Nadia’s name appears in the journalist’s unfinished article.

When the rule of law fails, dishonest politicians get even dirtier. Shane and Julianna can’t compete with the debased dictators of Jackson County unless they are willing to bend a few rules of their own. Shane Black escaped the city by the skin of his teeth. But his well-stocked mountain retreat is now the target of a local despot who gained his power through bribes, payoffs, and shady politics. Mayor Hayes had few scruples before the collapse. Now that he’s the only law around, he’s down-right ornery. Road trips are always a bad idea in the apocalypse.

Five dismembered bodies are found along the roadside, dumped in the middle of nowhere. This isn’t new to Special Agent Garrett Mann. Head of ARTEMIS, a specialized FBI task force hell-bent on hunting down cartel-related killings in the Southwest, Mann has seen this before. He and his team have been tracking similar kills along thousands of miles of rural roads running north, south, and back again. When the latest slaughter yields a key piece of evidence, Mann thinks he’s found the killer and solved the case. That’s when the nightmare begins.