Five years of silence. Eighteen years of expectations. One chance to fight back. Max Williams-Blake spent his adolescence waiting for the world to give him permission to exist. Under the roof of his step-father, Walter Reed, every move was monitored and every piece of the Williams fortune was placed under threat. But the time for waiting is over. Standing his ground not as a victim, but as a man in charge of his own soul, Max has turned his Capitol Hill studio into a command center. He isn't just fighting for his inheritance; he's fighting for the life he actually earned. But Walter is a master of rewriting history. With "catastrophic hardware failures" erasing the truth and detectives in his pocket, Walter is determined to frame Max for a crime that would strip him of his name and his future. As the courtroom pews fill with those ready to defend the Williams-Blake line, Max and Melody must execute a surgical strike against a predator who has already cleared the path to the money. In a game where the law is a weapon, Max must prove that a soldier's son doesn't just survive-he wins. From V.M. LaFountain, author of the Frequency Shift Anthology, comes a gripping story of reclaimed power and the brutal cost of redemption.
