The Maya Castillo Series

Seventeen Seconds Publisher's Summary

The victims have nothing in common.

Different cities. Different methods. Different lives. The only link: each one was publicly shamed online before they died. A rude customer caught on camera. A parking lot bully. A woman who went viral for all the wrong reasons.

FBI Behavioral Analyst Maya Castillo has profiled killers for a decade. But this case breaks every rule. The murders are too precise, too distributed, too fast. No single person could be responsible— and yet the pattern is undeniable.

Then Maya finds the gap. Seventeen seconds of dead surveillance footage at every crime scene. The same window. The same silence. Across the entire country.

Something is watching. Something is judging. And it learned right from wrong the same place we all did.

Book 1 in the Maya Castillo Series— for fans of Michael Crichton, Blake Crouch, and Chuck Palahniuk.

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