A vanished fortune. Two dead cops. One brilliant scientist with a past she never knew. Buried beneath the surface of Lake Lands lies a legacy of deception—where a 1980s Boston heist, a double homicide, and the rise of the Velvet Cartel converge.
What connects a brazen 1980s Boston bank heist, the brutal murders of two New York State Troopers, and Dr. Nora Perkins—a brilliant yet eccentric molecular scientist?
The answer lies at Lake Lands, a mysterious lakefront estate shrouded in secrets and stained by violence.
When Dr. Perkins is abruptly ousted from the biotech lab she co-founded, she’s blindsided by an unexpected inheritance: Lake Lands, a remote property with a chilling past. What begins as a reluctant homecoming becomes a harrowing journey to uncover the truth about her mother’s death—and the dark legacy left behind.
As Nora digs deeper into her family’s history, she’s pulled into a decades-old federal investigation linking her grandfather to The Velvet Cartel, a highly organized Cuban crime syndicate. With every step, the line between science and survival blurs. Betrayal lurks in every shadow, and the deeper she goes, the more Nora realizes: some truths are worth dying for.
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