The Price of Compassion( A Crime and Conspiracy Thriller)
READING AGE 16+
In the frozen heart of the Colorado mountains, Blackwood Manor was supposed to be an elite escape. But as a blizzard cuts all ties to the outside world, the luxury retreat transforms into a lethal cage. When a high-profile guest is found dead in a locked room, the guests realize they aren't VIPs—they are pawns in a meticulously planned execution.
Jake Wallace, a disgraced detective haunted by a corrupt past, is the only one who sees the pattern in the blood. Trapped in a fortress of ice with a killer who is always one step ahead, he must forge an uneasy alliance with Jaxon—a cold-blooded federal asset with a mind like a razor and a dark history of his own.
But the murder is just the tip of the iceberg. As Wallace and the resilient Chloe dig deeper, they uncover The Syndicate: a shadowy global organization that manipulates nations and erases anyone in its path.
In a world where truth is a liability and silence is survival, Wallace has nothing left to lose but his integrity. How much is a life worth when the powerful decide it’s expendable? The game is set, the Syndicate is watching, and the price of compassion might just be everything.
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The transition to freedom was the harshest sentence Jaxon (Maxon) had ever faced. He was out of the prison cell, but his new high-tech apartment—comfortable, isolated, and continuously monitored—was a gilded cage. He was physically free to breathe the air, but the terms of his supervised release tethered his genius exclusively to the state he……
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