Long Shadow

The man who built the empire is about to become its greatest liability.John Hale is thirty-five, impossibly young for the title he holds. CEO of Harrington Companies, husband to a woman who adores him, father to a son who watches the world from thirty-nine floors up and sees everything. He has built a life of perfect architecture — and now he wants more. A boutique luxury hotel empire. A European partner with deep money and deeper secrets. A future that belongs entirely to him.He has never stopped to consider what he would do if the architecture turned against him.In this electrifying sequel to Leverage, John Hale faces the one threat his entire life has been building toward — not an enemy from the outside, but the slow, patient work of the people who know him best. His wife, who has been watching and learning and building something of her own. The mentor who shaped him, now writing his biography in public. Federal investigators who don't need to prove a crime — only a pattern. And a woman from a world of dark money whose secrets could destroy everything, or whose destruction could destroy him.John Hale built his power through managed fear. What he never built was the other kind.The Long Shadow is a novel about what happens when a man who occupies systems finally meets a woman who builds them — and discovers, too late, the difference.