The Lawson Effect

Genre: Crime • Mystery • Slow Burn Romance • NCIS Fanfiction When a late-night "suicide" in Georgetown doesn't add up, NCIS Special Agent Alden Parker gets saddled with an outside consultant he didn't ask for-Brie Lawson, a bestselling true-crime author with a habit of saying too much, thinking too fast, and noticing what everyone else misses.

Brie's sharp intuition and chaotic charm throw Parker's carefully ordered world completely off balance. One minute she's cracking jokes and doing jazz hands in the middle of a crime scene, the next she's calling out details no one else has spotted-like how their victim was staged to look like he pulled the trigger himself.

To the rest of the team, she's quirky.
To Parker, she's trouble he can't ignore.

What Parker doesn't know is that Brie carries a secret-she sometimes sees flashes of the past through touch, little "director's cut flashbacks" she can't control. When a song connected to Parker's late father surfaces during one of those visions, she realizes this case might be more personal than either of them are ready to admit.

As evidence turns darker and the tension between them builds, Parker and Brie will have to figure out if they can trust each other long enough to uncover the truth-or if their own ghosts will get there first.