Behind The Screen

BEHIND THE SCREEN

She thought they were just voices behind a headset.
She was wrong.

By day, Vivienne Hollis works where the dead leave clues. As a forensic scientist, she knows how to read evidence, recognize patterns, and uncover the truth people desperately try to hide.

By night, she's someone else entirely.

Behind the glow of her computer screen, Vivienne escapes into gaming with two men she's come to trust.

Angelo Walker is charismatic, teasing, and dangerously easy to become attached to. He has a talent for making Vivienne laugh, even after the worst days at the lab.

Malik Brooks is quieter. Calculating. Observant. The kind of man who notices everything without saying much at all.

They've never met.

At least, that's what Vivienne believes.

Angelo and Malik have been best friends since childhood, their loyalty to each other forged long before Vivienne ever joined their late-night gaming sessions. But when a chance discovery reveals that their favorite teammate isn't living somewhere across the country-she's living dangerously close to them-the line between online friendship and real life begins to disappear.

What starts as curiosity becomes an obsession neither man is prepared to admit.

And Vivienne begins noticing things that don't add up.

A familiar voice in an unfamiliar place.

A stranger who seems to know too much.

Coincidences that happen one too many times.

Vivienne has spent her career learning that every secret leaves evidence.

Now someone is leaving evidence for her to find.

The closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes the two men she trusted behind the screen may be hiding far more than their identities.

Because sometimes the people who know you best...

aren't the people you ever actually met.