Kat Romero has spent a decade exposing men like those who buried her parents.
Her newest story connected a warehouse fire to security contractors moving weapons for people no courtroom has ever reached, and her face appeared on an anonymous threat board within minutes of publication.
Rather than lawyers, Echelon dispatches Naveed Safar, an ex-Marine and one of the five men who built the company she is trying to dismantle, which makes him the man she is least willing to let protect her.
A brick shatters her window, a notebook vanishes, and a doctored excerpt recasts her reporting as an affair with her own bodyguard, prompting her editor to pull the piece.
Publishing would cost Kat her credibility; staying silent would leave the dead without names.
The billionaire standing watch over her possesses the proof that could repair both, and surrendering it would finish him.
