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Material Witness
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 4 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some truths are worth killing for. Sloane Marsh learned that watching a man die for one.
Forensic accountant Sloane Marsh follows numbers for a living. They do not lie, flinch, or look away. But when a federal cooperator is murdered in front of her on Seattle's Pier Nine, Sloane becomes a witness the network cannot afford to leave breathing - the one person who can put a face to the killing and connect it to something powerful enough to bury the truth before it ever reaches a courtroom.
U.S. Marshal Eli Cassano is assigned to keep her alive. He is methodical, controlled, and built around one rule: never trust what you cannot verify. Sloane is all secrets and sharp edges, a witness who knows too much and tells too little. Every instinct says she is hiding something. Every new threat says he needs her alive long enough to find out what.
But the conspiracy hunting Sloane did not simply follow her into protective custody.
Someone told it where to look.
Driven from a safe house into the storm-battered Pacific Northwest, Sloane and Eli are forced into a partnership neither of them wanted - and neither can walk away from. She reads ledgers, patterns, and lies. He reads exits, sightlines, and danger. Together, they uncover something larger than one murder: a machine hidden inside clean paperwork, lawful orders, and the institutions meant to protect them.
As the net tightens, trust becomes the one risk they cannot afford - and the only weapon they have left.
Material Witness is a high-stakes romantic suspense thriller about dangerous evidence, corrupted protection, and two people running from a truth powerful enough to kill for.
Trust no one. Not even the truth.
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