When a daring breach at the Federal Evidence Warehouse yields a cache of incendiary files, Jade Cole—an operative who vanished years ago—reassembles a hidden life in the city’s underbelly. Mark Wilson, a streetwise private investigator with a knack for getting in where the law can’t, follows a breadcrumb trail from a luxury penthouse to flooded subway vaults and a shadow auction where reputations are sold to the highest bidder.
As clandestine families bid for dossiers and leverage, Jade and Mark scramble to steal back the Patriarch Files and move the proof into federal hands. But the auction is just the alliances fracture, trusted players double-cross, and the families mobilize to eliminate witnesses. With every corridor of the city rigged against them, the pair must outwit surveillance, survive the tunnels, and force a reckoning that will either topple empires — or bury the truth forever.