The Betrayal Clause

In the nation of Veridia, a landmark antitrust case against credit card titan Platinum Shield captivates the public, while a serial killer known only as the Fidelity Killer butchers those who have strayed from love. Journalist Maeve Carver follows a trail of cryptic love letters and transaction data, discovering that the killer's twisted morality is rooted in a bloody first-love lie engineered by the very corporate machinery on trial. In the shadow of the State v. Platinum Shield case, Maeve must confront her own crumbling marriage and the chilling truth: that what feels like fate is only the inevitable arithmetic of character and circumstance, layered together over a lifetime.