Prima Suspect

By: Lady Heartswell

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She danced for perfection. Now she's running for her life.

Isabella Cross is prima ballerina royalty—until one morning stretch in Central Park destroys everything. When doctored security footage implicates her as a witness to international terrorism, she's black-bagged by a shadow government agency and dragged to an isolated Adirondacks facility with no trial, no lawyer, and no way out.

Her only ally? Agent Gabriel Storm, the dangerously compelling operative assigned to interrogate her. Behind his military precision and stone-cold exterior, Gabriel communicates warnings through patterns that mirror Balanchine's choreography—a silent language only a dancer would recognize. He knows she's innocent. And he knows she's marked for death.

When he intercepts an execution order with her name on it, their fragile trust becomes their only weapon.

Their desperate escape through wilderness terrain reveals a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of government—Senator Malcolm Hayes has sold classified defense algorithms, and the private contractors protecting him want Isabella permanently silenced. As they navigate a deadly game across New England, Isabella discovers her dancer's discipline translates perfectly to survival: pain threshold, spatial awareness, performance under crushing pressure. She's not the delicate ballerina they expected.

Their only hope lies with Gabriel's estranged brother Christian, a brilliant hacker branded a traitor for exposing the same corruption now hunting them. But when Gabriel is captured creating a diversion for Isabella's escape, she refuses to run to safety. Instead, she weaponizes the one resource no one anticipated—the international ballet community's reach and loyalty.

Sometimes the most powerful revolution starts with a grand jeté.

With Christian's underground network and her fellow dancers positioned across the globe, Isabella orchestrates a precision takedown where art becomes espionage and every performance hides the truth in plain sight. As the conspiracy spectacularly unravels, three unlikely allies forge a family bound by shared trauma and impossible courage—and Isabella and Gabriel discover that the most dangerous leap isn't the one on stage, but the one into each other's arms.

For fans of romantic suspense with fierce heroines, morally conflicted heroes, and heart-pounding action, Prima Suspect delivers signature heat with a pulse-racing conspiracy that will keep you up all night.