The Libri GmbH The Counterfeit Game Paperback

Silas Mercer has spent months beneath the shadow of his wife's mysterious suicide. Rumors follow him, a local journalist has questioned why no one investigated the death, and Silas has learned to survive by burying himself in work.Then Celia Vale walks into his company.Beautiful, intelligent, and frightened of a man she claims never to have met, Celia knows details about Silas that should be impossible to know. She insists she has only one purpose: to prove Silas is innocent-and to show him that he is still capable of being loved.What begins as suspicion becomes attraction. Attraction becomes obsession. Soon Celia is living with Silas, drawing him into a world of parties, pleasure, drugs, and reckless nights while his empire begins to crumble.But Silas is not as broken as he appears.When Celia finds herself behind prison walls, memories of meaningless moments return with terrifying clarity. The packages. The parties. The drugs. The questions. The choices she thought were her own.Piece by piece, she begins to wonder whether she was ever controlling the game.And the truth about who she really is-and what Silas knew before she entered his life-may be the dangerous secret of all.