Part of Nikki Heat, book 10
First published 2019
Nikki Heat thought marriage would be simpler. Her husband Jameson Rook, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, can drive her crazy and lift her to incredible joy in the same breath. She loves him completely and would protect him at any cost, which she proved not long ago when it nearly destroyed them both. Now Rook has accepted a visiting professor position at his former university, eager to guide young writers at the college newspaper where he once worked. Days after he arrives on campus, a female student reporter is discovered dead and naked in his bed. Heat faces a crisis unlike any conflict they've weathered before. She must decide whether to trust her husband or confront the possibility that he's hiding something terrible. Heat chooses to believe in Rook and investigates his theory about a secret society operating within another secret society. Her search will challenge both her detective abilities and the foundation of their marriage.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: College, University
Period: Contemporary
234 pages · Hardcover · Kingswell
Content warnings: death, murder