"Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...

A celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor, Mike Brink finds his world upended by Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder who draws a perplexing puzzle believed to explain the crime she committed, and, obsessed with solving it, discovers there are powerful forces at work he cannot escape.