The Fourth Branch: Project Lazarus

The Fourth Branch: Project Lazarus

Twenty-seven-year-old FBI Special Agent Rowan Hale's first field assignment turns into a nightmare when her mentor, Special Agent Daniel Cross, is murdered and leaves her a mysterious notebook containing a final warning: "Trust no one." When the notebook disappears from FBI evidence and all records of Cross's investigation are erased, Rowan uncovers the existence of The Fourth Branch, a secret organization hidden within the government that has spent decades manipulating world events from the shadows.

Following clues hidden in Cross's notebook, Rowan discovers Project Lazarus and the Lazarus List-a classified registry of powerful figures who were believed to have died but are secretly alive and still shaping history. As Rowan investigates, she discovers her missing best friend Emma Vale never died, but was taken after uncovering a secret even The Fourth Branch feared: a connection to the mysterious Architect, the mastermind behind the entire operation.

With the help of her girlfriend Avery, Rowan must expose the conspiracy, rescue Emma, and uncover why she herself may have been chosen long before she ever joined the FBI. Because Project Lazarus was never designed to stop people like Rowan Hale-it was designed to find them.