Length8h 19m
About this audiobook
A former NASA propulsion engineer, Mara Cole loses everything the system was meant to protect: her husband to a friendly-fire strike, her four-year-old son to a care facility gutted by budget cuts, and her career to the same senator's pen. She does not fall apart. She reorganizes. Alone over eleven months, she builds a pen-sized, untraceable weapon and works through a private list of powerful men who harmed the vulnerable and walked free, marking each up close and answering the mark days later from three miles off, leaving nothing a lab can reconstruct. The disgraced FBI profiler sent to catch her cannot find the line between what she does and what he always wished someone would. And as a shadow faction moves to take her weapon rather than stop her, and an innocent woman is ground up by the manhunt in her place, Mara faces the question the book will not answer cleanly: whether justice is a bullet, or the one thing these men fear more, a truth made impossible to bury.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE PAINTED Part 1
2THE PAINTED Part 2
3The Cost Part 1
4The Cost Part 2
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