Rosie Winterbourne knows boats. She knows how they move, how they vanish, and how to read the sea when everyone else is looking the wrong way.Once an intelligence operative, now cast out and trying to rebuild a life that still cuts her in the dark, Rosie has traded covert missions for a fragile new career tracing stolen yachts. It should be quieter work. Cleaner work. A way to use her skills without drowning in the ghosts of what came before.Then a luxury yacht disappears from Hartlepool.So does the owner's daughter.What begins as a marine theft investigation quickly turns into something far colder: a trail of false identities, offshore money, ruthless corporate power and a stolen vessel heading into deep Atlantic waters. The police have theories. The insurers have paperwork. Rosie has instinct, experience, and a stubborn refusal to let the sea swallow the truth.Her search takes her from the south coast of England to the Azores, where fog, volcanic rock and open ocean conceal more than one secret. Alone, under-resourced and unsure who can be trusted, Rosie must follow a course that leads beyond stolen boats into a hidden world of coercion, corruption and violence.She is smart, damaged, capable — and far from invincible.Every decision costs her. Every mistake could kill the people she has come to find. And as the line between rescue and survival begins to break apart, Rosie must rely on the very instincts that once made her dangerous: patience, nerve, seamanship, and the ability to keep moving when fear would sink anyone else.Because finding the yacht was only the beginning.Bringing its passengers home alive will take everything she has left.
