The Rourke Correlation
Some families build legacies. The Rourkes build traps.
Caleb Rourke is good at two things: breaking into systems and walking away clean. He's managed both for ten years — until his aunt summons him back to Washington for a job that was never what it looked like, and he finds a ghost buried in the code. A decade-old secret. And the name of the man he once loved.
That's just the first night.
Vivienne Rourke is the most dangerous woman in American politics — not because she's ruthless, but because she's right about everything. She takes an oath of office while gutting the intelligence architecture of every allied nation. She sends flowers to the widow of the man she had killed. She has been building her empire in silence for forty years, and she is almost untouchable.
Almost.
Because Vivienne never bothered to watch the gardener's wife. She underestimated the man with the lockpick and the dying sister. She forgot that the people she used have memories, and that some of them have been quietly keeping receipts.
The Rourke Correlation spans six books, three continents, and one shadow institution that has been running the world's back channels for two centuries. It moves from the corridors of the State Department to a Marseille courtyard to an Oregon coast where two men are building a house and trying — badly, stubbornly — to believe they've earned the quiet.
They haven't. Not yet. But they're going to find out what it costs.
Start with In the Serpent's Shadow — available now.
In the Serpent’s Shadow
In the Serpent’s Game
