Shadow Trauma

The system is hunting him. The shadows aren't deep enough to hide.Alex Mercer survived El Paso's underworld by becoming invisible. No name. No history. No past. As Daniel Reed, sterile processing technician, he cleans the instruments he once wielded as an elite trauma surgeon, buried four floors below the hospital where he used to save lives.It should be enough. It isn't.When cartel boss Ochoa hands him an impossible task, Alex is pulled back into the light he's been hiding from: a dying man, a bullet that could bring down an empire, and a ticking clock that gives him forty-eight hours to do the one thing he was born to do. But this surgery isn't in a bunker. It's in the middle of a hospital crawling with private security, police, and one very dangerous FBI agent.Special Agent Rebecca Moss doesn't chase criminals. She follows the money, the missing equipment, the quiet patterns that institutions try to hide. She's already inside the building. She's already asking the right questions.And she's already noticed him.Two people who watch rooms the way soldiers watch rooftops. Two people hiding what they know behind practised deflection and midnight coffee. The closer they get, the more Alex has to lose, and the more Rebecca has to find.In the shadows of the Texas border, some choices save lives. Some choices save souls. And some choices you can't take back.