Liquid Assets

For ten years, investigative journalist Logan Washington lived by one rule: the math of a crime never lies. But when a high-profile corporate heist leads him to a blood-slicked floor in the city's deepest industrial district, his reality completely demolishes.Vampires aren't myths. They are corporate. They run a multi-billion-dollar global infrastructure embedded in Wall Street, hidden behind a mandate of absolute invisibility.At the heart of this shadow empire sits Roxanne Sterling—a six-hundred-year-old monarch wrapped in the pristine silk of a modern CEO. She views humanity as an ecosystem to be managed, not a hunting ground. But when a volatile rogue faction hijacks her global synthetic blood pipeline to weaponize a toxin that will poison the city's water supply and spark a scorched-earth war, the fragile peace shatters.Forced into a dangerous, claustrophobic alliance, Logan and Roxanne must hunt the threat together. He provides the sharp, cynical human intuition to track the enemy's analog margins; she provides the predatory teeth to survive the dark.They think they are balancing the ledger. But when the dust settles in the subterranean vaults, Logan unlocks one final, encrypted file that rips away the ultimate corporate shroud—revealing a terrifying truth that changes the geometry of the hunt forever."e;You provide the eyes. I provide the teeth. Let us see how long they survive when the hound and the monster are tracking the same trail."e;