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Sharper Than Desire (The Alibi Artist Book 1) Summary

The killer left a body posed like a confession. And an invitation with his name on it.Detective Evan Rourke has spent three years learning to live with the one moment he hesitated. Now a disgraced neuroscientist is dead in a locked penthouse, arranged too perfectly — and every piece of evidence points to a woman who seems to want to be found.Lena Vale doesn't run. She watches. She builds alibis the way other people build cathedrals, and she has decided Evan is the one detective who will finally understand her work.His new partner, Mara Quinn, doesn't hesitate at anything — not the case, not the danger, and not the pull between them that gets harder to ignore every night they spend chasing a ghost. But the closer they get to the truth, the clearer it becomes: Lena didn't just leave a body. She left a trail designed to take them apart — or bind them together — and she already knows which.Some killers hide. This one performs. And she has decided that desire is the sharpest blade she owns.Sharper Than Desire is a standalone dark romantic suspense novel: a morally gray mastermind, a slow-burn partners-to-lovers romance forged under fire, and a truth that cuts both ways. Includes a sneak peek at Book Two, Colder Than Mercy.Content note: explicit content and depictions of coercion and medical assault. Intended for readers 18+.

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