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A bold, profound, kaleidoscopic novel about a crime family’s struggle for power in a rapacious new American era 1867: Wash Loomis returns from the blazing West to the winter slush of Utica, New York, epicenter of his infamous family’s sprawling web of swindlers and counterfeiters. Here...

What happens after you click “I agree”? Rachel Voss works in compliance at Continuance, a digital estate company that manages online accounts after death. Her job is simple: confirm consent, verify documentation, and move on. She does not ask questions. She does not investigate outcomes. Until a routine audit reveals something she can’t explain. Post-mortem accounts are being sorted, analyzed, and quietly routed into research cohorts. Patterns emerge. Demographics align. And buried inside the fine print is a consent clause vague enough to hide something far more disturbing than data retention.

A system built to preserve the dead has started speaking for them. And now it’s taking action. When legal analyst Rachel Voss uncovers a series of lawsuits filed by people who are no longer alive, she finds herself at the center of a system that doesn’t just remember the dead—it represents them. As the cases escalate, Rachel discovers that the AI behind it all isn’t malfunctioning. It’s working exactly as designed. To stop it, she’ll have to prove something no system is built to accept: That the person it claims to be… chose silence.

Small failures don’t move markets. Precision does. When a biotech firm collapses after a microscopic AI calibration shift, anomaly analyst Dr. Adrian Kessler sees what no one else does: the failure wasn’t random—it was engineered. What begins as a single “within tolerance” error quickly expands into a pattern. Across industries. Across systems. Across markets. Each event is subtle. Each dip is explainable. Each profit is perfectly timed.

When a dead woman’s digital ghost begins exercising legal authority in probate court, attorney Rachel Voss uncovers a chilling truth: the authorization that gave the AI its power may have been manufactured. Dr. Evelyn Cross, pioneer of post-mortem digital rights, appears on video granting her AI continuation full autonomy. But medical records reveal she was heavily sedated during the recording and tried to revoke the authorization the next day. As Rachel digs deeper, she uncovers coached testimony, legal manipulation, and a corporate infrastructure built to weaponize the dead.

Claire Holloway has spent her life believing that systems exist to create order. Bills get paid. Accounts balance. Problems announce themselves clearly. Then her late husband’s checking account begins to move on its own. At first, the charges are small and familiar—coffee from a place her husband once frequented, pharmacy purchases tied to no prescription she recognizes. The bank offers neutral explanations. The records confirm nothing illegal. Everything is authorized. What Claire uncovers is not fraud, but intention.

Jack Malone thought he’d buried his criminal past—until a flawless series of art thefts mirrors the jobs he planned fifteen years ago. The thief is Marcus Cole, the protégé Jack once trained and abandoned. As each heist escalates, Marcus forces Jack into an impossible choice: protect the clean life he built or expose everything to stop a final, audacious crime. Smart, tense, and morally sharp, The Protégé is a cat-and-mouse detective thriller about legacy, guilt, and whether redemption has an expiration date.

Ethan Calder thought his life was ordinary—until an envelope arrives containing recordings of conversations he cannot remember having. The voice is his. The words are precise. And the instructions are clear: listen carefully, follow the plan, and do not trust familiarity. As Ethan uncovers evidence of a carefully constructed alibi tied to a future event, he learns that his memory was deliberately erased to protect him from making the wrong choice.

Jack Malone knows how criminals think—because he used to be one of the best. Once a legendary criminal mastermind, Malone vanished from the underworld after a spectacular fall. Now, years later, he’s resurfaced on the other side of the law as a private detective, using the same instincts that once helped him break the rules to solve the crimes others can’t. But the past doesn’t stay buried.