THE CURE LIVES IN HER MIND. THE TARGET IS ON HER BACK.Dr. Thallo Vance doesn't do human variables. As a brilliant ethnobotanist working in an isolated research laboratory two hundred feet above the rainforest floor, she speaks the language of data, precision, and plant chemistry. She has spent three grueling years isolated in the clouds, mapping a rare bioluminescent flora variant that holds the only cure to a catastrophic neurological disease. She is minutes away from stabilizing the final sequence when a violent tropical monsoon hits-and the world below her vanishes into a bloodbath.Rook Mercer was never just a rough, cynical supply climber. He is an elite undercover tracker for the Environmental Investigation Agency, sent into the high canopy to hunt down a massive corporate data leak. He expected a simple asset extraction. He didn't expect a brilliant, fiercely independent scientist who treats human trust like a statistical liability-or the sudden, brutal internal betrayal that cuts the suspension lines and leaves them trapped in high-altitude peril.When a ruthless private syndicate launches a hostile takeover of the primary research treehouse, the ladder lines are severed and the jungle is set ablaze. Trapped in a three-room aquatic pod during a torrential downpour, Thallo and Rook are forced into a breathless, dead-out survival sprint across unharnessed tightropes, swinging platforms, and crumbling branches.With the multi-million-dollar compound destroyed, the ultimate prize is no longer in a lab container. It is locked inside Thallo's head. To escape the burning sky, she must rely on Rook's lethal combat reflexes-while he must protect the one variable he never factored into his mission: the woman he cannot afford to lose. Read more
