Trust, but verify.
THE MERIDIAN TRUST
Coming November 18, 2027
The Story
Kitanya Ravensong is a barrister who believes the law is the only weapon that cannot be taken. When a crushed spine in a Tangier hospital leads her to a paper trail of shell companies and colonial blood money, she does not flinch. She litigates.
Rufus Stanford is a man who used to be a duke. He disclaimed the Dukedom of Ashworth to dismantle the criminal empire his father confessed with three dying words: Tangier. Meridian. The Serpent's Tongue. He believes intellect can overcome violence. He is wrong.
Their alliance is sealed not with trust, but with mutual blackmail. She has evidence of his family's crimes; he has the cipher to her evidence. From the medinas of Tangier to the boardrooms of London, from a lighthouse auction in the Strait to the Rif Mountains where treasure and tomb wait beneath the soil, they will learn that some empires are built on blood, others on law — and both can destroy you.
The law is the only weapon that cannot be taken.
An architecture of empire. A slow-burn legal thriller.
Book One of The Meridian Trilogy.
From the Text
I will not tell you to trust me. I will tell you to verify everything I say, everything I do, every piece of evidence I present. Because the only thing more dangerous than a man who inherits an empire is a man who believes he can dismantle it with a brief and a voice.
Content Advisory: This novel contains depictions of corporate violence,
colonial legacies, psychological manipulation, and explicit intimacy.
Reader discretion is advised.
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