Reunion in the Morgue

Julian Hale spent six years perfecting his hatred for the wife who abandoned him and their newborn daughter. Now the Chief Forensic Pathologist, he faces his most brutal assignment: a mutilated "Jane Doe" delivered by the FBI, a victim of the Ventura Cartel’s sadistic reach. From the shadows of the lab, Ava Sterling watches in ghostly silence as her ex-husband uncovers the ring, the scars, and the truth she died to keep hidden. She wasn’t a traitor who walked out; she was an undercover agent who stayed away to keep them alive. As Julian reconstructs her broken body and the conspiracy that destroyed her, he must choose between the comfort of his resentment and the lethal reality of her sacrifice before the cartel comes to finish what they started.