Published books

**The Door Beyond the Wall**

At 2:17 a.m. in Cell 17, Arjun Rao gets a note slid under his door: *"Don't trust the man who opens your door."* Beneath the words is a small black circle, a mark he last saw eleven years ago on the photograph that helped send him to prison for a murder he swears he didn't commit.

By morning, Arjun is free. But freedom lasts less than a minute. A black car is waiting outside the gate, a stranger's wrist carries that same black circle, and a voice on a phone he never owned tells him: *"You should have stayed inside."*…