Cross Crossed

<p>In a city where the corporate ladder is built on headstones survival is the only promotion that matters.</p><p>Victor Cross is a man of rigid discipline and cold calculation. When he lands a role as a junior financial consultant at The Rovers he believes his first-class degree and aggressive debt-recovery skills are his greatest assets. But he quickly discovers that at this firm performance isn't measured in spreadsheets. It is measured in blood.</p><p>The Rovers is a hollowed-out empire a bankrupt recycling front masking a darker reality. To stay afloat employees are being systematically eliminated. As Cross is fast-tracked into a dead man's office he realizes he hasn't been hired for his mind. He has been selected by the firm's ruthless owner Graham as a moral blank slate the perfect innocent sacrifice for a terrifying occult ritual meant to wipe the company's debts clean.</p><p>Surrounded by colleagues who are as much predators as they are peers the brilliant but desperate Flute and the enigmatic Sandie whose warmth hides a mission of sabotage Cross is forced into a high-stakes game of psychological warfare. From the sterile halls of a corrupt hospital to the candlelit ruins of an ancient dome the line between ally and enemy dissolves.</p><p>When a manufactured tragedy strikes his family the disciplined consultant abandons logic and embraces a more violent creed. With the help of the irreverent Flute Cross must navigate a web of financial scandal and ritualistic murder to settle the ultimate debt.</p><p>The contract is signed. The sacrifice is prepared. But Victor Cross is about to prove that innocence is the most dangerous weapon of all.</p><p> </p><p> </p>