Without a Why

In the gray sprawl of Teller County, West Calhoun, former fraud investigator Caleb Thorn reinvents himself as a predator of predators. He hunts the medical transport tycoons and ambulance kings who have bled the state's MediCalhoun program dry with phantom emergency runs. When he sets a trap for Vincent Lasker, the ruthless owner of Devereaux Medical Transport, Caleb expects a high-stakes con—but the abyss stares back. In a world where loyalty is a currency and every identity is a forgery, the ultimate evil may have no motive at all. A chilling game of deception reveals that the most terrifying monsters are not driven by greed, hatred, or revenge, but by pure, inexplicable emptiness. This is a story of stolen lives, fabricated futures, and the cold truth that some people just want to watch the world bleed.