Chapter One Sarah Reynolds was chasing the invisible. The room was pitch-black, the only light coming from the computer monitor. Her fingers danced across the keyboard, faster than thought. The humming of the machine was the only sound in the room, and Sarah was lost in its rhythm. There. She found it. With a smile of triumph, she entered a few more commands and then sat back, waiting for her program to run its course. In a few minutes, she would know exactly what type of information the corporation had been sending out of their building. It was a daunting task to break into their system, but Sarah had been working on this for months. She had done her homework, and she knew that this particular corporation was involved in some very shady business. There were rumors of drugs and prostitution rings, but there was no concrete evidence. Not yet. Sarah was determined to find it. She had been hacking into their system for weeks, but she never found anything. It was like their network was impenetrable, like they were hiding something. But tonight she had gotten lucky. She had found an open port in their firewall, and she had used it to slip inside their network. Sarah had been scanning their files for hours, searching for something—anything—that would give her a clue as to what they were up to. But so far, she hadn’t found a thing. It was like they were hiding their secrets in plain sight.

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Chapter OneSarah Reynolds was chasing the invisible. The room was pitch-black, the only light coming from the computer monitor. Her fingers danced across the keyboard, faster than thought. The humming of the machine was the only sound in the room, and Sarah was lost in its rhythm.There. She found it. With a smile of triumph, she entered a few more commands and then sat back, waiting for her program to run its course. In a few minutes, she would know exactly what type of information the corporation had been sending out of their building.It was a daunting task to break into their system, but Sarah had been working on this for months. She had done her homework, and she knew that this particular corporation was involved in some very shady business. There were rumors of drugs and prostitution rings, but there was no concrete evidence. Not yet. Sarah was determined to find it.She had been hacking into their system for weeks, but she never found anything. It was like their network was impenetrable, like they were hiding something. But tonight she had gotten lucky. She had found an open port in their firewall, and she had used it to slip inside their network.Sarah had been scanning their files for hours, searching for something—anything—that would give her a clue as to what they were up to. But so far, she hadn’t found a thing. It was like they were hiding their secrets in plain sight.

She had been so lost in her work that she hadn’t noticed the door to the server room opening. But as soon as the lights came on, Sarah was jolted back to reality. She reached for the gun that was tucked into her waistband, but it was too late. A man was standing in the doorway, his face hidden in the darkness.“Don’t move,” he said, his voice deep and menacing. “And don’t try anything funny. My partner is right behind you, and he’s got a gun to your head.”Sarah’s heart was racing. This was it. She was going to die. “Who are you?” she asked, trying to keep her voice steady. “What do you want from me?”The man laughed. “You know damn well who we are. We’re the corporation’s security team, and we’ve been watching you for weeks. You’ve been trying to break into our system, and we don’t take that kind of thing lightly.”“Please,” Sarah said, trying to sound calm and composed. “I swear I wasn’t doing anything illegal. I work for a tech firm, and I was just checking our network. I’m not some kind of cybercriminal.”The man didn’t seem convinced. “Nice try,” he said. “But we’ve got evidence that you’ve been hacking into our system. You’re coming with us, and you’re going to tell us everything you know about this little operation of yours.”