SAUL & PEPPER

Pepper Ruiz has worn a dozen names and forgotten none of them. Three years ago, on a flight to Madrid, she sat next to an insurance investigator named Saul Rivera and ran the easiest read of her career: bored, harmless, exactly the kind of man who'd never remember her face.

She was right about almost everything. She was wrong about the one thing that mattered.

Now she's back in his city for the job of her career — a private gala, a centuries-old relic, and an exit plan three years in the making. Saul is closer than she's ever let a mark get, closer than she meant to let anyone get, and neither of them has said out loud what they actually are to each other.

He thinks he finally knows who she is.

She's been three steps ahead of him since the moment they met.

Saul & Pepper is a tense, character-driven novella about two people who are very good at their jobs and even better at lying to themselves — elegant, dangerous, and unwilling to give either of them a clean win.