K. G. Groves

Episode 21: Front Page (Silk and Smoke, #6) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At three in the morning-the hour the city decides who's lying-Jack Colder gets a text: "Mayor's daughter. Evidence. Alone." On a rooftop over an old newspaper building, a wet, reckless heiress cuffs a welded flash drive to his wrist and sends him to Pier Thirty-One, her father's off-the-books warehouse.

Inside, there are no kids left. Just empty containers, fresh seals, taped-off floor grids, missing cameras, and a looped recording of children crying piped through hidden speakers. Someone scrubbed the room and left the sound behind on purpose. They want rage. They want a raid with no victims, a headline without risk, a mayor with a built-in alibi.

With the crooked-tie detective at his side and the tunnel under the pier whispering about blue rooms and chalked initials-A.m.-Jack finds the staging ground: blanket rooms, camera marks, "be brave / be clear / be human" prompts pinned to the wall. This is not a rescue; it's set dressing for a story someone else is already writing.

Then A.M. himself walks into the warehouse like he owns the exits.

He's not interested in the drive; he's interested in narrative. The kids have been moved to "better rooms"-church basements, clinics, places that photograph well. The mayor will take a week of shame, announce a task force, name a port after a charity, and walk away cleaner. The council gets a villain that looks good on camera. They want Jack and the mayor's daughter in the frame, furious and well lit.

But the girl wants more than a role. She wants the truth on the record in her own words. She steps into the shot and says it out loud: her father owns the warehouse, children were held there, and if she vanishes, print that sentence with her name. It's a lit match in a room full of paper-and A.M. smiles like he's just been handed better copy.

So Jack cuts a different deal: one child, delivered alive to a church back door in thirty minutes, or the council loses its mask games at Bellwether D. What follows is a wet sprint through a city that opens a lane for them and an alleyway handoff that proves A.M. can still move kids like pieces and call it mercy.

Front Page pushes The Reporter's Bad into open war for the narrative-warehouse vs. church, council vs. conscience, and a mayor's daughter who refuses to let A.M. pick the headline that carries her name.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Buckdaddy Studio
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232952402
• Artikelnr.: 75903745