The Lowering

An alarming surge in whale deaths. Friends and enemies murdered. And a deadly game of musical chairs at the top of an immensely powerful and secretive cabal.

Private investigator and haunted survivor LILA PIPER thought she’d slammed the door on her Chicago nightmare, hiding out on the Caribbean Island of St. Barts. After getting stranded there by the pandemic, she gladly accepts an offer to escape to a small bungalow in San Diego. But when news reaches her that friends and enemies from her old life have been killed, she starts digging to find out who’s responsible. If her instincts are correct—that the deaths are connected to the same shadowy cabal behind the illicit experiments that almost ruined her life in Chicago—then she is also a target. Enlisting the help of a New York City police detective and an old contact from the CIA, Lila uncovers a threat that is absolutely terrifying.