Emokentsi Yakakum

Everyone in Vellum City knows the name Cole Ashford.
He built Ashford Industries from nothing a self-made billionaire who runs half the city's economy and donates to every charity gala on the calendar. The press loves him. The city trusts him. And nobody asks what he does after midnight.
Nobody except Mara Voss.

Mara is a crime journalist at the city's last independent newspaper, The Vellum Courier. She is not supposed to be investigating the string of strange deaths happening near the waterfront. Her editor pulled the story. Her sources keep going quiet. And three days ago, someone left a dead wolf on her doorstep with her press badge tucked under its paw.
She keeps investigating anyway.

When the evidence starts pointing to Ashford Industries and to Cole Ashford personally Mara does what any good journalist would do: she gets closer. What she does not expect is that he already knows she is coming. What she cannot prepare for is what she discovers when she finally gets close enough to see the truth.
He is not hiding a crime.
He is hiding a war.

And now that she knows, she is either the most dangerous person in the city or the most protected one.
Cole has not decided which yet. Neither has she.