The Ghostwriter's Gambit

<p><strong>In Carter Bryson's new high-stakes legal thriller <em>The Ghostwriter's Gambit</em> the deadliest stories are the true ones... and the most dangerous thing you can do is write them down.</strong></p><p></p><p>Amelia Stone has built a celebrated career writing fiction that feels chillingly real. As a bestselling author of legal thrillers she is a master of crafting intricate plots and bringing justice to the page. But when she accepts a lucrative private commission from the enigmatic billionaire Lord Blackwood she finds herself crossing the line from fiction into a terrifying reality.</p><p></p><p>Her task is to write the history of the Blackwood family a legacy to be immortalized at their gothic estate Blackwood Manor perched on the stormy cliffs of the Yorkshire coast. With the help of her brilliant but anonymous ghostwriter-a digital phantom she knows only as <em>Veritas</em>-Amelia uncovers what was meant to stay buried: a forty-year-old secret of murder and deceit tied to a shadowy criminal syndicate. She meticulously documents it all in a single explosive manuscript: <em>The Serpent's Quill</em>.</p><p></p><p>The night she delivers the final draft her world shatters. Lord Blackwood is found dead a dagger in his chest and the manuscript has vanished without a trace.</p><p></p><p>Suddenly Amelia is no longer the author; she is the prime suspect. With a clear motive no alibi and her name on a damning book that no one else has seen she finds herself in the crosshairs of a weary but relentless police inspector. Worse she is now being hunted by the very syndicate she exposed a ruthless organization that will stop at nothing to recover the manuscript and permanently silence its author.</p><p></p><p>Trapped and isolated Amelia's only hope is to place her trust in the one person who may have orchestrated her downfall: the ghostwriter. Is he an ally playing his own long game of revenge against the people who destroyed his past? Or is he the master manipulator a ghost in the machine who set her up to take the fall?</p><p></p><p>To survive Amelia must step out of the pages of her own novels and become the hero she always wrote about. Her investigation becomes a frantic chase through the dark web and the rain-swept English countryside a desperate search for the truth that will either clear her name or lead her to her grave.</p><p></p><p><em>The Ghostwriter's Gambit</em> is a twisting intelligent thriller about the power of narrative and the price of truth. It is a deadly game of cat and mouse where the most dangerous weapon is a story and the only person you can trust is a ghost. Can Amelia unravel the conspiracy before her own final chapter is written?</p>