The Silence Between Us

She can't hear a word he says.

She doesn't need to.

Veradis Caron is a deaf linguist hired to translate a cache of seized documents for an anonymous client. The pay is triple her rate. The office has no windows. The contract has clauses she doesn't read carefully enough.

By the time she understands what she's translating, and who she's translating it for, she is already inside the world of Miran Voronov, a man whose name doesn't exist in any public record and whose empire was built to stay invisible.

The problem is Veradis.

She reads lips. She reads rooms. She reads the things powerful men say when they believe no one is listening, and in a world where silence is the highest form of currency, a woman who hears everything without ever hearing a sound is the most dangerous person alive.

And Miran Voronov is beginning to understand exactly what he let through his gate.