The Detective She Trusted

Riley Cho wakes in a hospital bed and learns her roommate didn't make it out of the dorm fire. The only adult who believes it was set is Detective Isa Mora, who treats Riley like a partner instead of a witness. Together they build a case against a beloved teacher. But every piece of proof Riley brings back is slightly off — a timestamp moved by minutes, a photograph that isn't the one she found. Riley starts investigating the detective. What she uncovers is a decade of cases shaped to fit a story Mora needed to be true. And buried in those files is Riley's own father. A taut, twisty thriller about the stories adults tell to survive, and the teenager who refuses to inherit them.