Fault Lines

Book One of the Crossing Lines Series

A city-wide power failure brings two worlds into unexpected proximity-and exposes the fractures neither can ignore.

Lucas Reed has built his life on competence, quiet authority, and work that speaks for itself. When a major infrastructure failure throws his city into crisis, he is called in to do what he does best: restore stability under pressure.

Evelyn Hartwell arrives with a different kind of responsibility. As a senior executive whose firm holds influence over the failing system, she is tasked with oversight, accountability, and navigating the politics that follow public failure. She is sharp, composed, and accustomed to being seen-never to being questioned.

Their first meeting is professional. Their connection is not.

As restoration efforts unfold under scrutiny, Lucas and Evelyn find themselves drawn together by mutual respect, shared restraint, and an understanding that grows in the margins between duty and desire. But power is never neutral, and proximity comes with consequences neither of them can ignore.