Shadows After Paradise
Paperback
Series: The Shadow Home Saga, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 354
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The people who know whom you trust know how to reach you.
In the aftermath of a deadly operation on the Dominican coast, Ethan Grey has a wounded shoulder, a village struggling to recover, and a missing friend. Before Lila vanished, she used her last warning to save people she had never met. Ethan intends to find her-even if the trail was built specifically for him.
The Network offers protection, medical care, and resources he cannot obtain alone. But its help comes with conditions. As Ethan follows Lila's movements from the coast into Santo Domingo, he discovers a program that has spent years studying vulnerable communities: who lends money, who opens doors, whose reassurance makes frightened people cooperate.
Someone has learned to turn trust into an instrument of control.
With Jack Steele beside him and school leader Amara SolÃs confronting the damage in her own community, Ethan begins to question the institutions offering answers-and his own need to be the man who saves everyone. Every attempt to protect the people he loves may be another move someone has already anticipated.
Finding Lila will demand more than the skills that kept him alive. It will require him to share truths he would rather carry alone, surrender decisions he has always made for others, and face what his idea of protection has cost.
Set against the beauty and unease of the Dominican Republic, Shadows After Paradise continues the Shadow Home Saga with a story of institutional betrayal, moral injury, and the difficult work of learning whom to trust.
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