Shadow Contract

The Shadow Contract is a quiet list of paid removals disguised as corporate cleanups. Names vanish. Scandals disappear. Elections tilt. And when Mara’s name appears inside the next operation, she realizes the truth doesn’t make you free. It makes you a target. Jace Rourke is the man you hire when you need someone pulled out of hell. Paid to extract Mara and deliver her to safety, he discovers a second contract buried beneath the first—one that orders her death, signed by the same invisible hand. Now they’re running through a world where every badge can be bought, every camera can be turned, and every safe place is only a waiting room for betrayal. But the closer they get to exposing Lazarus, the more Mara and Jace become the one weakness the other can’t afford. Because in a game run by shadows, love is the most dangerous leverage of all.