Patience After Five Years

Five years in prison changes a person. For Elena Marsh, it stripped away everything except one burning truth: she was innocent. The embezzlement conviction that destroyed her life was built on lies, and she knows exactly who told them.Fresh out of Crosshill Women's Correctional Facility, Elena has nothing but the clothes on her back and a list of three names. Marcus, the fiancé who testified against her. Vivian, the boss who planted the evidence. Sara, the best friend who backed up every lie. They took her career, her freedom, and five years she'll never get back. Now Elena will take everything from them.But revenge requires patience, and patience is the one thing prison taught her well. She'll infiltrate their lives methodically, learn their vulnerabilities, and dismantle their worlds piece by piece. Each target thinks they've moved on, built new lives on the foundation of Elena's ruin. They have no idea she's coming.As Elena's carefully constructed plan unfolds in the rain-soaked streets of the city that forgot her, the line between justice and obsession begins to blur. Her targets aren't quite who she remembered. Their lives hide secrets she never suspected. And someone from her past is watching every move, waiting for the perfect moment to reveal a truth that will shatter everything Elena believes about her conviction, her revenge, and herself.In this atmospheric psychological thriller, Katherine Lamb weaves a tale of betrayal and retribution that asks: How well do we really know ourselves? And when you've lost everything, how far will you go to take it back?