Veronica: The Ghost of Panama
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
VERONICA
Book One: THE GHOST OF PANAMA
She disappeared to protect her daughter. Someone has finally found them.
For seven years, Veronica has lived as someone else.
Hidden in a remote Panamanian village, she has built an ordinary life under a carefully constructed identity. To the people around her, she is simply Elena Ruiz-a quiet widow who mends clothes, worries about her fifteen-year-old daughter Maya, and wants nothing more than to remain invisible.
But Veronica's ordinary life is a lie.
Before Panama, she was an elite intelligence operative who spent two decades learning how to read surveillance, anticipate threats, disappear without a trace-and survive the people hunting her.
Then a stranger appears in the village.
A man watching the school.
A presence that is too deliberate to be coincidence.
And when bullets tear through Veronica's home, the life she built for Maya collapses in a single night.
The truth can no longer remain buried.
Veronica is forced back into the world she abandoned, taking Maya with her as mother and daughter flee through Panama's dangerous underworld, intelligence networks, private contractors, and hidden corridors of power. But the attack on their home is only the beginning.
Because someone is not simply trying to find Veronica.
Someone has been watching her for years.
As Veronica follows a trail leading from a mysterious contract in Panama City to private intelligence networks and powerful figures operating behind layers of deception, she discovers that the people hunting her may understand her past better than she does herself.
And Maya may be at the center of it all.
Every answer creates another question. Every ally may have an agenda. Every escape brings Veronica closer to a truth she spent fifteen years trying to bury.
But there is one thing Veronica refuses to surrender:
Her daughter.
To protect Maya, she will confront the enemies she once escaped, reopen wounds she thought had healed, and enter a world where governments, intelligence services, private operators, and hidden architects manipulate events from the shadows.
Because Veronica knows how to disappear.
What she has never had to learn is how to stop running.
VERONICA: THE GHOST OF PANAMA is a gripping espionage thriller about identity, deception, motherhood, loyalty, and the dangerous price of uncovering the truth. With international intrigue, relentless tension, covert operations, shifting alliances, and a deeply personal emotional core, it launches the Veronica series with a story where the greatest threat may not be the enemy in front of you-but the secrets buried behind you.
The past has found Veronica.
Now she is coming for the truth.
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