Overview

Kianna Smythe was never one to shy away from a mystery to solve. Even as a young girl, she delighted in the challenge of gathering clues and deducing the ins and outs of the happenings in her world. But, the case that found its way to her burgeoning investigative practice was beyond irresistible-it would call on every innate and cultivated skill she had to save the very existence of the world. In the 22nd Century, the South has re-segregated and seceded from the rest of the country, creating a culture where the progress in race relations has been reverted to fierce division and enmity. And yet, there is a "live-and-let-live in separation" way of being that has been working for everyone. That is, until a cyber invasion threatens to disrupt their delicate equilibrium. As a mysterious hacker is attempting to play the factions against one another and seems to have access to every aspect of their lives-even the most private and personal ones-Kianna and her unlikely but capable and trusted assistant must root out the man . . . or woman . . . behind the subterfuge and prevent a rift that will have global repercussions.