When a freight train crashes on the outskirts of Hawthorn, it doesn't just spill toxic cargo—it uncovers a buried truth some would kill to keep quiet. Prosecutor Margaret Harrington thought she was chasing negligence. What she finds is something far worse.
As the case unfolds, a burned-out reporter named Ethan Hale starts digging where he shouldn’t. Rebecca Holloway, a DCI agent with scars of her own, follows a trail that twists back through cover-ups, dead witnesses, and a system designed to forget. The deeper they go, the more the lines blur—between justice and revenge, guilt and survival.
Relentless, haunting, and razor-sharp, this is a novel about power, silence, and what it costs to break both.