NEMESIS
A High-Stakes Pulse-Pounding Thriller by I. C. Cosmos
PROLOGUE
Lexington, Kentucky
He’s dead. A wave of heavenly relief washes over me. He’s gone for good, and with him the terror and the twisted “truth.”
I lean against the car seat, replaying the last couple of hours, my knuckles white on the steering wheel. He’s dead…and I am alive. But not out of trouble. I still have to get out of here.
Fear slithers through my gut like a snake, spitting venom into my veins. I am back in hell.
What will happen if they catch me?
COMING SOON!
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Nemesis is for Readers Who Enjoy…
tense, emotionally charged thrillers. It’s about guilt, revenge, and the terrifying moment when an ordinary woman decides she can no longer look away. If you like fast-paced reads with resilient female leads, this third standalone book in the Helen Dillon series is for you.
The central story belongs to Nora and can be understood independently, while readers of the earlier books will recognize Helen, Collin, and Andreas and their long-running conflict.
An ordinary journalist.
A dead president.
A truth powerful men will kill to bury.
A freelance journalist infiltrates a president’s private resort—and becomes the most hunted woman in America when he turns up dead.
She went undercover to stop a president. Then he died.
When freelance journalist Nora Alden skips voting, she tells herself that one ballot could not have changed the result.
Then Grant Toley wins the presidency.
Within weeks, the country Nora thought she knew begins to fracture. Her daughter loses the job she loves. A friend is threatened into silence. Government programs vanish, fear spreads, and powerful men enrich themselves as ordinary people pay the price.
Behind the chaos stands Andreas Gershwiller—the president’s prominent adviser and a criminal mastermind with a knack for uncovering what people want most and turning it to his advantage.
Consumed by guilt and rage, Nora follows the trail to Godspeed, Toley’s private Kentucky resort. Disguised as a maid, she enters a hidden world where wealthy visitors trade influence behind closed doors, vulnerable workers are treated as disposable, and security cameras are designed not to see too much.
Then Toley dies.
Suddenly, Nora holds secrets that could destroy the administration—and make her appear guilty of far more than investigative reporting. As Andreas closes in, she can trust only Helen Dillon, his brilliant, estranged niece and the one woman who has defeated him before.
But Helen is already fighting for her own survival.
With the government rewriting what happened and Andreas eliminating anyone who threatens his version of the truth, Nora must decide how much she is willing to risk to expose the real power behind the presidency.
Because sometimes the most dangerous person in the country is not the one who commits the crime.
It is the one who controls the story afterward.
Meet the author
I. C. Cosmos loves storytelling and exploring what people do when life pushes them to the edge.
Her fascination with why some people crumble under pressure, others become villains, and some rise to become their best selves found its way into all her books and is reflected in the characters' journeys through fear, conscience, and the darker corners of their psyches.
I. C. and her husband live in Baltimore.
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