Primate

PRIMATE
BOOK ONE

For eleven months, Imani Jackson has refused to believe her younger sister simply disappeared.

Tori Jackson walked away from her life after taking nearly half a million dollars from a business venture that was already falling apart. Since then, Imani has followed every lead, questioned everyone who might know something, and endured one dead end after another.

Then she finally finds her.

Tori is alive.

But she isn't coming home.

Whatever happened during the months Tori was gone is tied to Wesley Crandall, the powerful businessman she was involved with, a missing $480,000, and a dangerous web of secrets that stretches far beyond the money.

Before Imani can get the truth from her sister, someone else enters the picture.

Julian Cross-the accountant who knows far more about the money than he should-is found dead.

Now Tori's disappearance has become a murder investigation.

And the people closest to her have plenty of reasons to lie.

As Imani searches for answers, investigative journalist Nicole Smith is following a separate trail left behind by a dead private investigator. What she finds makes no sense: people who should have no connection suddenly helping one another, favors appearing at exactly the right moment, and seemingly impossible outcomes that leave no obvious explanation.

The deeper Imani and Nicole dig, the more their paths begin moving toward the same mystery.

A mystery most people don't even believe exists.

PRIMATE.

Some say it's a person.

Some say it's an organization.

Some say it's nothing more than an urban legend.

But someone-or something-is moving quietly through the lives of people who want something badly enough to ask for it.

And Imani is about to learn that finding her sister may have been only the beginning.

Because sometimes getting what you want is the easy part.

Living with what it costs is another story.