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Survival
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Michelle Jones
Published: Apr 16 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Survival has a price, and for the residents of The Courtyard, it's paid in silence.
In the heart of the city, a dilapidated apartment complex hides a secret world. Since 1998, three families have lived as ghosts, navigating a Safe Map of back alleys and cash-only markets to evade a country that considers their existence a crime. Bound by the Grand Tanda-a secret ledger of pooled life savings-they have built a fortress of paper and shared shadows.
But the fortress is rotting from within. While Mateo clings to the invisibility that keeps him safe, his sister Chloe, a U.S. citizen, hungers for the light of a public life. Their father, caught between a decades-long ghost divorce and a dangerous affair with an outsider, makes a desperate bargain: become a confidential informant for the FBI or watch his community crumble.
As a vengeful Mafia ring closes in and an obsessed federal agent oversteps his bounds, the families' carefully constructed world ignites. To save their future, they must abandon their past, fleeing toward the myth of sanctuary in a race where the greatest threat isn't just the law-it's the secrets they've kept from each other.
In a world where you don't exist, who can you trust when the shadows finally disappear?
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