A sealed case. A silenced witness. A system designed to make both disappear.
Former federal prosecutor Griffin Rafferty thought he escaped the machinery that manufactures outcomes instead of justice—until evidence surfaces from a buried conviction tied to his own past. The deeper he digs, the clearer it someone inside the system is engineering testimony, redirecting investigations, and erasing the people who know too much.
When Claire Monroe, an agency analyst with everything to lose, uncovers proof of a covert testimonial program operating beneath legitimate cases, she becomes the next target. Files vanish. Names are redacted. Courtroom victories turn out to be built on threats, omissions, and manufactured certainty.
To expose the truth, Griffin and Claire must outmaneuver the institution that trained him, the prosecutors who replaced him, and the shadow network that benefits from silence. Every witness comes with a cost. Every answer leads to a door that should never be opened.
The question isn’t whether the truth exists. It’s whether anyone who speaks it survives long enough to matter.