The Room Above (Book Two)

Mara Voss published too early. She knows that now. Her exposé was supposed to burn the network down. Instead it taught it how to survive — scattering its circles, burying its tracks, and leaving Mara with a reputation as the reporter who cried wolf. Now the eleven-town pattern has gone quiet, and quiet is worse. Working with Danny, a source with his own reasons to hate the network, Mara starts mapping what survived: a franchise system, compartmentalized and patient, rebuilding under new names. To get inside, Mara does the unthinkable: she lets herself be recruited. Infiltrating a circle means sitting in the quiet room herself, playing the broken woman, earning the trust of people who destroy lives for a living. Every circle she maps brings her closer to the center. And the center has been waiting for her. The Room Above is the second book in the Quiet Room trilogy.