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Backup Drive
Paperback
Series: The Evidence Files, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A year after her sister's death was ruled an accident, Maya Garrett finds the proof that says otherwise.
Hidden in a box of old school belongings is a black external hard drive labeled Insurance. Inside: encrypted files, secret recordings, falsified documents-and evidence of a multimillion-dollar admissions fraud scheme run by the elite prep school that shaped her sister's final months.
As Maya begins to unlock what her sister died protecting, it becomes clear the truth was never meant to surface. Powerful administrators, wealthy families, and quiet institutions all have something to lose. And they are watching.
What starts as grief turns into a dangerous investigation that forces Maya to choose between staying silent-or finishing what her sister started.
Backup Drive is a tense, emotionally grounded thriller about truth buried by power, the cost of speaking out, and the evidence someone was willing to kill for.
For readers who want quiet menace over spectacle, institutional corruption over lone-wolf heroics, and human stakes instead of gimmicks.
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