A Friend of the Family
His cousin doesn't want Abel Ease dead.
She wants him delivered.
He came off the mountain carved: OPEN. HEAR. BECOME EMPTY. His wounds are closing on somebody else's schedule. The dead have hounded him since he was a boy, and now they've gone silent, the way a courtroom goes quiet when the verdict is already in.
Samantha Foster owns the cult that held him down, and she's smarter than the man she took it from. She learned what he never did: you don't start with the locked door. You start with the hinges. No more chasing. Just the patient removal of everything holding Abel up, until the last open door is hers.
Emi Laurens and Brett Lichen came home knowing the world has hands. It takes people on purpose, and it rarely leaves a mark. In a Florida carpool line, a mother hears a voice that isn't hers. It knows what she's tired of carrying. And it has something to show her.
Book Five of Dark Pursuits. In this family, the ledger always balances. New here? Start with A Friend of the Dead.
