Every Lie in the Dark - The Night Archive Series, #3

Noemi Reyes knows how people disappear.

Not just from streets, safe houses, and crime scenes—but from the systems meant to prove they ever existed. As Cipher, the hidden guardian of The Night Archive, she has spent years preserving missing-persons records before powerful people can rewrite them into silence.

When a protected-witness breach is blamed on Cipher, federal cybercrimes investigator Malik Sterling is ordered to identify the hacker behind The Night Archive and shut the system down. Malik is disciplined, brilliant, and impossible to intimidate. He is also dangerously close to the truth.

Because Cipher did not expose the witnesses.

Cipher tried to save them.

As missing-persons reports change in real time and erased victims become "voluntary absences," "duplicate entries," and "relocation failures," Noemi and Malik are pulled into a conspiracy that reaches through federal systems, private contractors, and the shadow network known as The Rookwell Compact. Every clue draws Malik closer to Cipher's digital footprint—and closer to Noemi.

The more he trusts her, the more dangerous her secrets become.

But when Rookwell turns Malik's own investigation into a weapon against The Night Archive, Noemi must choose whether to stay hidden or step into the light as the woman behind the black moth. And Malik must decide whether justice means obeying the hunt—or protecting the truth he was sent to destroy.

Dark, tense, and emotionally charged, Every Lie in the Dark is a romantic suspense thriller about erased victims, corrupted systems, forbidden trust, and a love that can only survive if every lie comes into the light.