The Replaceable Man

Gabriel Cross is a ghost, a hired killer for the unseen conglomerate Aegis Holdings. His final contract is to silence Maya Vance, a seventeen-year-old orphan determined to expose a police killing that threatens a billion-dollar surveillance contract. But when Gabriel sees his own brutal childhood mirrored in Maya’s eyes, he breaks his leash. In a heart-pounding flight across the American Midwest, they uncover a profit machine that manufactures tragedy for quarterly returns. Sacrifice is inevitable, and in a system that treats lives as expendable assets, even a hero’s death is just a minor accounting adjustment.