2023 Minnesota Author Project winner in Adult Fiction
2024 Author Shout Reader Ready Awards Top Pick
★★★★★ “An Unrelenting Page-turner” ~Reader Views
★★★★★ “I just couldn’t stop reading this book” ~Amazon Reviewer
When the Department trained me to catch criminals, I never dreamed I’d become one.
Agent. Suspect. Intergalactic fugitive.
I was one of them until I shot my partner in self-defense. Even though the Department cleared me of wrongdoing, my co-workers didn’t agree. They turned their backs on me, so I turned my back on them.
My partner’s actions never made sense. After ignoring my gut for a year, I asked my tech-genius best friend to dig into it. Now Jarrett’s gone dark, and I soon discover he’d been brutally murdered. An officer finds me standing over the body, blaster in hand. Even I admit it looks bad.
There’s no way I can trust the Department to investigate further—not if I'm already the prime suspect. My only option is to run. Is it impulsive? Sure. Will having law enforcement dog me across the galaxy make life difficult? Most certainly. I’ll have to stay one step ahead of them if I want to solve Jarrett’s murder and clear my name.
Doing that will require every trick the Department taught me—and a few I learned on my own.
Trigger warnings: profanity, violence, trauma, death
Release Date: April 4, 2023
Heather Texle is the award-winning author of the Reliance Sinclair science fiction series. She lives near Minneapolis, MN with her husband and two cats, Mew and Spots.
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