The Winter Gala was meant to honor victims—not add another to the list.

Renee Morrow, a budding journalist, dies just as she's about to hand Maggie a warning—and her exposé dies with her.

Biscuit, her loyal hound, and Maggie chase shattered pearls, hidden microchips, and an old locket that won't stop burning against her skin. But the truth tangled in this case feels too close to Maggie’s own splintered past.

Suspects are a curator guarding the museum's reputation, a historian obsessed with Maggie’s former identity, a janitor cleaning up the wrong mess, and an accountant whose ledgers bleed red.

And Harper—her partner, her undoing—hides a lie that could break her. Blackmail. Cover-ups. Legacies polished white as pearl and red as blood.

As the snow falls and the killer circles closer, the past catches fire—and this time, Maggie might not outrun the flames.