Her Beautiful Alibi - The Night Archive Series, #4

Anika Shaw knows dirty money. She knows how it moves, how it hides, and how it buys silence before anyone realizes mercy has become a weapon.

When Anika traces The Rookwell Compact's money to the prestigious Aster House Foundation, she uncovers a charity built to launder reputations, disguise hush payments as survivor grants, and turn public generosity into private control. Aster House does not just protect the powerful. It sells them new stories.

Leo Sato wants to document everything. The hidden ledgers. The masked donors. The black moth pins that mark who has purchased silence, erasure, resurrection—or an alibi. But Anika refuses to let survivor pain become evidence for public consumption, even if Leo's camera could help bring Aster House down.

Their only way inside is together.

Posing as a wealthy donor couple at Aster House's infamous Black Moth Ball, Anika and Leo step into a world of coded bids, forged timelines, reputation packages, and beautiful lies. But the cover cuts too close. Their fake intimacy becomes real. Their age difference becomes gossip. And when Aster House creates a donor account in Anika's name, making it look like she has been buying silence all along, desire becomes the weapon used against them both.

To clear her name, Anika can accept the foundation's most exclusive service: Her Beautiful Alibi.

To expose the truth, Leo can release the footage that proves Aster House's corruption—but doing so could expose the very survivors Anika has sworn to protect.

The final choice will cost them both. Because the only way to destroy Aster House is to refuse the lie, claim the truth, and stop hiding from each other.