halcyon Deception

A cipher that could crack the world's secrets — stolen from under the White House's own roof.During a glittering state dinner in Washington, D.C., the Halcyon Key — a next-generation quantum decryption device built under a classified White House program — vanishes from a secure vault. If it reaches the black market, every allied secret on earth is up for sale.Enter Scarlett Vale, field operative of the off-the-books Northlight Bureau. Armed with her wits, her 9mm, and an Italian V-12 that outruns trouble, Scarlett chases the Key from the corridors of power in D.C. to London's back streets, the labyrinthine souks of Marrakech, a deadly exchange high in the Alps, and a private Caribbean island where the world's most dangerous buyers gather.But she is not the only hunter. The ruthless Cinder Pact has its best tracker on her trail — and someone inside the White House itself is feeding her every move to the enemy.Book 1 of the Scarlett Vale series. The hunt is on — and the traitor is closer than she thinks.