She had thirty-four months of evidence on his organization. He had her name, her face, and a decision to make.
Sara Voss spent nearly three years embedded inside the Besa organization as a freelance auditor — invisible, methodical, and trusted by people who had no idea they were feeding information to a federal task force. She had the account structures, the shell hierarchies, the property routes, the entire architecture of how the money moved. She was eight months from a clean extraction.
Dritan has run the Besa since before it had a name most people recognized, and he has survived this long because he reads situations — not just what’s in front of him, but the shape of what was supposed to be there and isn’t. When a debriefing note out of Newark lands on his desk and his most trusted auditor has a second life, he doesn’t send someone else. He handles it himself.
He expects a problem to manage. What he finds is a woman who speaks Albanian like she grew up at a table where it was spoken, who isn’t afraid of him the way she should be, and who has apparently been building a framework in her head for thirty-four months that even he finds impressive.
He doesn’t hand her to the organization. He takes her for himself.
Marked by the Ghost is a dark, captive-romance with an Albanian crime lord who moves like a ghost and a heroine who knows too much to be let go — and just enough to make him keep her close for reasons that stopped being strategic a long time ago.
