The Last Man on Her List - The Night Archive Series, #1

Mara Vale has spent years turning grief into precision.

By day, she is the polished founder of Cecily's Fund, a woman Rookshore's elite trusts at their galas, boardrooms, and charity dinners. By night, she is Redline, the most dangerous operative in The Night Archive — a survivor-led evidence network built to expose the powerful men the justice system protects. Her list began with her sister's death. Now only one name remains: Gideon Hale.

Gideon is not hiding in the shadows. He is beloved, decorated, and about to receive Rookshore's highest law-enforcement honor. Worse, the man scheduled to introduce him is Detective Elias Mercer — Gideon's former protégé, a principled investigator hunting the pattern Mara has left behind. Elias knows someone is targeting powerful men. He does not know the woman he cannot stop watching is the blade at the center of it.

When Elias discovers Gideon is Mara's final target, everything fractures: his loyalty, her secrecy, and the dangerous attraction neither of them can afford. Mara wants the clean satisfaction of ending the man who helped bury her sister's truth. Elias needs proof strong enough to survive the corrupt institution that raised him. But Gideon's crimes reach far beyond one ruined case — into Harborlight, a "protective" program that stored survivors instead of saving them, and into The Rookwell Compact, an elite network built on blackmail, silence, and reputation.

At the ceremony, Mara gets her chance. One final kill. One perfect ending.

But killing Gideon would bury the trail to the men above him.

To save future victims, Mara must do the one thing more dangerous than vengeance: trust the detective who was supposed to stop her. And Elias must choose between the mentor who made him and the woman who may be the only honest thing left in the room.

Dark, sensual, and suspense-heavy, The Last Man on Her List launches The Night Archive Series with a morally gray vigilante heroine, an investigator hero torn apart by loyalty, a corrupt mentor, a survivor-led conspiracy, and a romance where love does not soften revenge — it turns it into war.