The Silence Between

At nineteen, Mal Williams has learned how to disappear in plain sight.

An active-duty Navy cyber specialist with a disciplined mind and a carefully controlled life, Mal is recruited into the most private security operation in the country-the Moorestone estate, home to the wealthiest and most powerful family in the world. Behind locked gates and flawless appearances, her job is simple: observe, protect, and never be seen.

But the mansion is not what it seems.

As Mal embeds herself deeper into the estate's systems, she begins to notice fractures-patterns that don't belong, movements that aren't accounted for, and a presence that mirrors her own precision. Someone is watching her. Someone who understands surveillance as well as she does. And the closer she gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell what is real, what is controlled, and what is deliberately hidden.

Caught between military duty and private power, Mal forms uneasy bonds with the Moorestone siblings-each guarding their own secrets, each tied to the estate in ways she doesn't yet understand.

Trust becomes a liability. Isolation becomes dangerous.

In a world built on wealth, silence, and surveillance, being unnoticed was her greatest strength.

Now, it may be the one thing she can no longer afford.