Society reporter Lanie Price is looking forward to interviewing visionary director Seth Carter on the set of his new film. But the, a spotlight crashes down and shatters, nearly killing Carter’s wife. Bad luck or something darker?

Carter is a maverick in the world of race films and he's daring the unthinkable: to depict hard issues, real lives on the silver screen. But there have been on-set "accidents," risking lives, and threatening letters promise more trouble. Shut down production or else. Lanie's job is to report the danger. But Carter begs for silence. One word in print and his film, his dream, and his crew are done.

Lanie knows what it means to look away. She’s done it before—with her husband, with a truth she didn’t want to face. Now the choice is hers again: expose the danger and destroy a dream, or stay quiet and risk seeing sabotage turn to murder?

In a world built on secrets, how much truth can one woman afford to tell?

"Shards of Betrayal: A 1920s Historical Mystery"

by Persia Walker