Some cases don't go cold, they rot.
Detective Celeste Virell doesn't chase headlines, she dismantles ghosts, Cold, precise and disturbingly observant, she's known for cracking the cases no one else dares to touch. But when the thirty-year-old murder of Samatha Grey is suddenly handed to her, even she feels the air shift.
To face a case this rotten, Celeste turns to the only team she trusts,
Mara wood, a bubbly forensic pathologist with clinical precision and eerie insight.
Elias Rowe, a burnt-out ex-professor who can slip into the minds of murderers
August "Auggie" Kael, the tech prodigy whose candy-cane obsession masks a mind made of wire.
Damien Holt, an ex-military memory machine who rarely speaks, but never misses a detail.
And Leon Seroll, the encyclopedic genius with a fixation on unsolved tragedies, and a rivalry that burns beneath his skin.
Together, they are Unit thirteen, known as Unit Virell, the most elit force in Division Thirteen, But as they dig into Samantha's case, marked by missing evidence, conflicting reports, and impossible scars, they begin to sense something deeper than murder.
Some truths were never meant to be found.
And some clocks don't tick forward,
they count down.