Dead On The Line

DEAD ON THE LINEA dead woman made the call.At least, that's what the evidence says.When Detective Zaria Lennox is called to the home of wealthy real-estate broker Sloane Mercer, she expects another homicide investigation.Instead, she finds a mystery that should be impossible.Sloane is dead in her bedroom-but a chilling 911 call appears to capture her describing her own murder.The timing doesn't make sense.Neither does the evidence.And when Zaria discovers the name of her former partner, Roman Hayes, hidden among Sloane's private notes, the case suddenly becomes dangerously personal.Then an anonymous photograph arrives.Seven people.One house.One night seventeen years ago that everyone involved has spent years trying to forget.At the center of it all is Bellweather Street, where a young woman died, another disappeared, and a group of friends made choices that would follow them for the rest of their lives.As Zaria digs deeper, the investigation leads her to falsified deaths, missing women, secret children, stolen fortunes, police corruption, hidden recordings, and a private clinic where one woman survived something she was never supposed to live long enough to expose.And then there's Julian Vale.A man who has officially been dead for years.A man who looks enough like Roman to turn suspicion in the wrong direction.A man who seems determined to drag every buried secret into the light-no matter who has to die along the way.But Julian isn't the only person lying.Everyone connected to Sloane has something to hide.Her estranged husband.Her closest friend.A respected police captain.A family that has spent nearly two decades protecting its own.And Naomi Beckett, a woman everyone believed was long gone-until Sloane recognized her standing inside her house on the night she died.The deeper Zaria gets, the more dangerous the truth becomes.Because Sloane Mercer wasn't investigating just one murder.She had uncovered an entire network of secrets built on money, blood, power, and people who learned that the easiest way to bury the truth was to make witnesses disappear.Now someone is cleaning up what Sloane started.And Zaria may be next.To solve Sloane's murder, she'll have to untangle seventeen years of lies and answer the question at the heart of the case: If the woman on the 911 call was already dead... who was really on the line?DEAD ON THE LINE is a twist-filled crime mystery and psychological thriller packed with buried family secrets, shocking betrayals, cold-case connections, corruption, false identities, and a murder investigation where almost everyone has a reason to lie.