While You Were Asleep

FBI Special Agent Logan Matheson has one photograph of his wife. It lives on his sun visor, fading. He left it there on purpose.

Julie was murdered on December 23rd, 2013. The case went cold. Matheson was relocated to a safe house in Canon City, Colorado - isolated, monitored, and quietly removed from the investigation into his own wife's death.

He starts writing. He starts dreaming. And the dreams are not his.

The Shadow for Hire has operated in the margins of federal institutions for years - forty-three commissions, zero investigations, a market rate calibrated to the specific value of specific lives. Nobody has come close. But somebody built the Canon City house to face the mountains for a reason, and the bourbon on Matheson's counter has been there longer than it should have been, and the man watching from the tree line is not watching to be seen.

While You Were Asleep is the first book in The Matheson Chronicles - a methodical, literary thriller about a grief-driven investigator, a contractor with a twenty-year plan, and a twenty-minute encounter in a Chicago alley that set everything in motion.

Some cases find you. This one was waiting.