Leave It All Behind

All secrets have a price.

Claire Huntington was a name the world once knew—the rising star of American gymnastics, the girl who had everything to lose.

Now, that name belongs to a ghost.

After a car crash kills her parents and exposes their ties to the CIA, Claire vanishes. Years later, she’s no longer the girl the headlines adored but a weapon built from loss and lies. Rebuilt under a new identity and buried within the CIA, she’s tracking the truth about her parents’ murder—one secret at a time.

When a mission in Italy goes wrong, Claire comes face-to-face with the one person she swore she’d never see again: Trevor Bennett, her childhood best friend and the boy who once held her heart. He believes she’s dead—until she breaks into his hotel suite.

As Trevor is drawn into his father’s criminal empire and Claire closes in on the men who destroyed her family, the lines between love and betrayal blur. In a world where trust is lethal and loyalty costs everything, the past refuses to stay buried.

Because some ghosts don’t stay gone.

And some hearts never forget.

©2025 Rachel Peugh (P)2026 Rachel Peugh