THE COUNTERFEIT MOVE - GARETH STONE

THE COUNTERFEIT MOVE

Celia Vale has lost her freedom, but prison has given her something more dangerous: time to study the man who destroyed her.

Silas Mercer survives by controlling information, anticipating threats, and turning uncertainty into power. Celia discovers the one weakness he cannot tolerate-questions without answers.

From behind prison walls, she sets a quiet plan into motion. A stranger. Anonymous letters. Small truths drawn from the shadows of Silas’s own world. Nothing fabricated. Nothing obvious. Just enough to make him question the people closest to him-and, eventually, himself.

As suspicion spreads through his empire, Silas begins hunting for the unseen hand manipulating his reality.

But every answer creates another question.

And somewhere beyond his reach, Celia is waiting for him to make the one move she has been planning for all along.