Houston · Gramado
The novelA dark psychological thriller

Everyone hasan agenda

A new town. A remote job.
A hundred names.
None of it is as innocent as it looks.

Inside the story

Distance isn't protection.

In Gramado, Brazil, a woman takes a remote job with Kennedy & Kennedy, a prestigious law firm in Houston, Texas. There is no office to walk into, no coworker at the next desk. Just a laptop, a list of a hundred names, and a man who expects her to answer.

Even at three in the morning.

The firm is respected. Decorated. Warm. But beneath the reassurances are demands that leave little room for refusal. What sounds like an opportunity begins to sound like a warning.

They hired her from three thousand miles away.
They never had to meet her.
That was the point.

Lights in the distance beneath a dark, clouded night sky.

Gramado · Brazil

A place to disappear.
A place to be known.

Early spring. Trees just starting to bud. Streets that smell of pine and woodsmoke. A small, quiet town where everyone knows your name.

Kennedy & Kennedy.

One of the most prestigious firms in the United States. A name that carries weight, even from another continent.

Here, warmth and authority speak in the same voice. The requests are ordinary enough: answer the phone, cover Saturday, put Mr. Kennedy first.

Until you listen to what they're really asking.

A laptop screen illuminating a dark workspace.

The distance between them

No office.
No witnesses.

No one to knock on her door. Just a screen between the life she came here to build and the man in Texas who expects her to answer.

“I do expect you to answer.”
“Honey, when something comes from Mr. Kennedy, forget everything else.”
“Or else.”

You can stop asking questions.
Or you can find out what happens when you don't.

Everyone has an agenda.
His has a Houston address.