Quiet Empire
Quiet Empire
Book One of the Second Start Series
What if the people you trust most are protecting something you were never supposed to discover?
Inside the American prison system, a hidden network has been operating for years—protected by money, influence, and people willing to kill to keep its secrets buried.
When Sarah and her family stumble into the path of that network, they discover that what appears to be corruption is something far more sinister. Prisoners are disappearing. Human lives are being exploited for profit. And behind it all stands a powerful organization known only as the Consortium.
But the Consortium has made a dangerous mistake.
It has underestimated the people who have nothing left to lose.
As an FBI agent, a hardened prison fixer, and an unlikely group of allies begin pulling at threads that reach far beyond prison walls, they uncover connections that stretch from West Virginia to a clandestine international operation. Every answer raises another question. Every discovery brings them closer to an enemy that knows how to make people disappear.
And once the truth begins to surface, there is no safe place left to hide.
Quiet Empire is the gripping first novel in the five-volume Second Start Series—a character-driven thriller of conspiracy, corruption, family, sacrifice, and the fight to expose an empire that was never meant to be seen.
The Consortium built its empire in silence.
Now the silence is breaking.
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The Consortium hides behind layers of wealth, influence, and disposable lives.
Second Start exists for one purpose:
To draw a straight line from every forgotten victim to every person responsible.
Its symbol is the rook.
It doesn't move in circles. It doesn't compromise. It moves in straight lines until the truth is exposed.
Read the FREE prequel, Shadow Node, and discover how Alison Lane's sacrifice gave birth to the organization determined to bring down the Consortium.
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