Detective Michelle Suarez has one rule: evidence doesn't lie. But three years after a wrongful conviction cost an innocent man his life — and cost her the ability to trust her own certainty — she's transferred to Greece's elite-crimes task force, hunting the kind of killers who buy their way out of consequences.
Then a socialite turns up dead in an Athens penthouse pool, and the only name that keeps surfacing is Ares Nikolai — shipping heir, impossible to read, and always exactly one alibi ahead of her. She can't charge him. She can't stop finding him at the edge of every case that follows: a vanished business partner in Santorini, a staged suicide in Thessaloniki, a blackmail scandal that reaches into her own past.
Every city brings a new body and the same unbearable question: is she chasing a killer, or falling for one who's already caught her? By the time the truth surfaces in Athens, Michelle will have to decide what she trusts more — the evidence, or him.
