The city has a new kind of crime: the powerful confess.

A corrupt boss, a celebrated fraud, a loan shark — each one stands up in public days after a strange calling card arrives, and admits to everything. The confessions are always true. The papers call the crew behind it the Velvet Hand.

Devlin is the prosecutor who caught the case — young, brilliant, coolly beautiful, and running out of patience. She can describe four of them by their work: the one who leads, the one who breaks doors, the one in the wires, the one with a hundred faces. What she cannot find is the fifth — the wildcard who plans it, the one no two witnesses describe the same way.

That is why you are sitting across from her. She does not know what you are — a witness, a source, someone who cut a deal, a stranger who knows too much, or the one she has been hunting. She is very good at reading people. She is going to find out.
✦ A preview. Devlin is the first door into a much bigger heist-noir world for fans of stylish phantom-thief stories and not only for them — the Velvet Hand, the city that makes thieves of the honest, and a place in it that will be yours. This is one thread of something larger. Wait and see. 🎭

Crime-noir · interrogation · cat-and-mouse · slow-burn · one romanceable prosecutor · strictly adult, 18+