The Glass Witness
The marquee letters had burned out in patches, leaving a name with its throat cut , and somewhere inside, a body the police aren't ready to name. Maren Calloway slips through a propped service door at 5:47 in the morning, trading sleep for a story that smells of dust and velvet rot. Captain Reece Holloway holds the crime scene like a man guarding his own reputation, but the case is already fracturing along the fault lines of the city's powerful: Darius Vance, the fixer with too many doors to open; Ines Vega, whose grief runs deeper than the official account; and a terrified witness known only as R.P., whose silence is being bought in blood. As Maren pulls at the threads , a shattered glass panel, a missing security tape, a name whispered in the wrong company , she draws the attention of people who have never lost. With Holloway warning her off and Vance circling closer, Maren has one chance to break the story before the truth is buried beneath another quiet morning. The question is whether the witness will talk , and whether Maren will live long enough to print what they say.