Book IV

The system that's rewriting everyone she loves has one flaw it didn't anticipate: her.

Elaine Ionello has been the steady hand in GW Canyon's orbit for years — managing, noticing, never quite seen for what she's actually doing. A traumatic brain injury left her with something the people converting everyone around her never accounted for: a region of mind that doesn't fully rewrite. While an organization calling itself the Directorate spreads through the lives of everyone GW loves — reshaping loyalty, desire, even memory — Elaine is the only one positioned to understand what's happening before it's done to her completely.

Starfish is the novel where the series stops circling its conspiracy and names it. The stakes aren't corporate, and they aren't political in any familiar sense — they're personal, total, and intimate in ways that will unsettle readers who think they know this series. Tali Canyon disappears into the machinery and comes back changed in ways that can't be fully undone. Amy Taggart finds a version of herself she didn't know existed. And Elaine — overlooked, exactly the kind of woman this system was built to absorb without resistance — ends up carrying what none of the others can.

This is not a comfortable book. It's the one the series has been building toward.

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Starfish is a standalone thriller and the fourth charm in the GW Canyon Series. Newcomers are welcome. Returning readers will feel every earlier book paying off at once.