Three bombs. Three targets. One explosive secret.

When the homes of three prominent Black members of Congress are bombed in Washington, D.C., FBI agent Lisa Owens is thrown into a high-profile case with national implications. Still adjusting to life in the Bureau, Lisa can't shake the feeling that she's barely keeping up. She's smart, but does she even belong here?

Lisa's mentor, Bernie Washington, is the one person who sees her potential. But as Lisa digs deeper into the case, she begins to suspect that even Bernie is holding something back. As the investigation points to a hate crime with chilling political implications, pressure mounts from every direction. But in politically divided Washington, the FBI is unraveling under the weight of its own divisions.

A lead is uncovered that takes the team deep into the Blue Ridge Mountains, where a shadowy group is waiting to finish what they started, and where a long-buried tragedy is about to surface. Now, with the clock ticking and the body count rising, Lisa must face her own doubts and confront a history written in blood.

The second electrifying book in the Lisa Owens trilogy-a taut, emotional thriller where the past isn't dead... it's just waiting.

But when his foster brother, Jake, a nomad van-lifer who never met a problem he couldn't run from, returns to town, the distrust, shock, and danger return with him.

After witnessing a convenience store robbery gone wrong, Drew assumes his foster brother has done what he's always done: run. But when cops begin poking around, followed by armed men threatening his family, Drew comes to understand what happened in that convenience store wasn't really random, and that his brother hasn't actually run.

Now, caught between his commitment to keep his growing family safe and his oldest bonds, Drew has to navigate a world he has no knowledge of, a world in which one false step could see his body washed up on one of San Diego's picturesque beaches, or lost forever beneath the waves.

In this shocking, mysterious, and deeply-felt novel, Anthony and Derringer Award-winning author Curtis Ippolito probes what, exactly, makes a family, and how much weight they can put on someone before they begin to sink.

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September 10, 2026