THE COLD EQUATION

His sister died twenty-two months ago.Now Liam Vance has proof that she's alive.For five years, former intelligence operative Liam Vance has lived alone in the Scottish Highlands, far from the world he once served. Then he discovers that someone has been watching him for weeks.Hours later, a woman from his past arrives with eleven photographs.Two of them were taken seventeen days ago.And the woman in those photographs is Maya — Liam's younger sister, officially dead after her car disappeared into a reservoir nearly two years earlier.The trail leads from Scotland to London and across Europe to the Adriatic coast, where Maya is being held inside a private intelligence network built by people who once operated in the shadows of governments — and no longer answer to any of them.But Maya is not simply a prisoner.She knows something powerful enough to make governments nervous, former intelligence chiefs desperate, and professional killers expendable. And the closer Liam gets to her, the more he realizes that the operation is connected to the mission that destroyed his career five years ago.To bring Maya home, Liam will have to trust people who have already betrayed him, uncover the truth about the operation that broke him, and decide how much of the man he used to be he is willing to become again.A tense espionage thriller about loyalty, betrayal, family, and the price of secrets that were never meant to survive.