Borrowed Silence
When private investigator Marcus Vane's Portland office plunges into darkness at 2 AM, a single call from Ashford Point shatters the silence, and pulls him into a case where the dead refuse to stay buried. The death of Martin Sool has drawn in Dr. Callum Ashford, the referenced expertise of Dr. Yuki Tanaka, and the shadow of a man called Aldric Voss. As Marcus digs deeper into the circumstances surrounding Ashford Point, he crosses paths with a tangled web of allies and adversaries, Rosa Delgado, Lyle Marchetti, and the enigmatic Jonah Kael, while Hargrove Security and unnamed FBI agents tighten the noose. His partner Dana Whittmore stands beside him, but even she carries secrets: sealed voicemails from Petra Lindqvist, a silent phone call from Claire Vane, and the unresolved weight of her mother's past. With Sool's death tied to a mysterious woman named Sable, Marcus must untangle borrowed silence before the conspiracy claims everyone he loves, his wife Claire, his son, and the quiet life he's built against Portland's relentless rain. Every unanswered call is a clue. Every silence, a confession waiting to break. The truth waits in the dark, but once it speaks, no one walks away unchanged.