Suspense where the evidence is never clean — and trust is the most dangerous thing on the record.
Some truths are worth killing for. Sloane Marsh learned that watching a man die for one.
Forensic accountant Sloane Marsh follows numbers for a living. They do not lie, flinch, or look away. But when a federal cooperator is murdered in front of her on Seattle's Pier Nine, Sloane becomes a witness the network cannot afford to leave breathing.
U.S. Marshal Eli Cassano is assigned to keep her alive. He is methodical, controlled, and built around one rule: never trust what you cannot verify. But the conspiracy hunting Sloane did not simply follow her into protective custody.
Someone told it where to look.
Trust no one. Not even the truth.
Book One found the hand. Book Two finds the signature. Book Three finds the account. Sloane and Eli climb the machine one dangerous layer at a time — and every truth they prove, someone with everything to lose is working to erase.
A murder on Pier Nine. A safe house that isn't. A partnership neither of them wanted — and neither can walk away from.
Available nowA protected witness vanishes from the inside. To find her, Sloane and Eli have to fight the very system built to keep people safe.
Coming soonThe man above the machine deals in the only currency left: what the world is allowed to believe. The final reckoning.
In the worksAdrian Grace grew up on a farm in Michigan and came to writing the honest way: heartbreak. What started as hundreds of poems — none published, all necessary — eventually turned into stories, and the stories refused to stay small.
These days Adrian lives on the Florida coast with two dogs, writing romantic suspense set in a storm-battered Pacific Northwest that is conveniently nothing like the view out the window. Material Witness is Adrian's debut novel and the first book of the Material Witness Trilogy. Hostile Witness is on the way — and after the trilogy, who knows.