Secrets of the Mind

Three months after bringing down a master manipulator who weaponized the human mind, FBI Behavioral Analyst Dr. Manon Laib is finally learning how to live without the shadow of Thorn looming over her.

She has her PhD, a place on the Bureau's Behavioral Analysis Unit... and Special Agent Cash Barnes, now officially hers.

For the first time, life feels steady.

Until two children vanish.

Arielle Huggins, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a powerful Republican senator, disappears after cheer practice.
Nine days earlier, Sam Redman, the fourteen-year-old son of a prominent Democratic senator, vanished after school.

Opposing political families.
No ransom demands.
No eye-witnesses.
No obvious connection-except one chilling possibility:

Someone is sending a message to Washington.

As the BAU digs deeper, Manon's telepathic gift pulls her into the tangled thoughts, secrets, and fears surrounding the case-revealing hidden alliances, buried scandals, and a kidnapper who understands exactly how to manipulate power, perception... and people.

But the more Manon uncovers, the clearer it becomes that this isn't just about leverage or politics.

It's about control.

And whoever took these children isn't just watching the nation's leaders-

They're watching her, too.

In a race against time, Manon and her team must unravel the psychological game before two families lose everything... and before the enemy proves that the most dangerous secrets aren't in government files-

They're in the human mind.