In the Serpent’s Shadow: Where Power Breeds Poison (The Rouke Correlation Book 1) by Elias Keane

He was hired to find the leak. He didn't know he was the bait.Caleb Rourke thought returning to Washington was just another job — a routine security audit for a biotech giant, triple the usual rate, quick in and out. Then he found a ghost in the code: a decade-old encryption signature from a heist he was supposed to have buried forever.

And a name he never expected to see again.When Caleb's ruthless aunt Vivienne — Washington's most formidable power broker, days from confirmation as Secretary of State — summons him back into her orbit, she doesn't ask for loyalty. She assumes it. But Caleb is about to discover that the audit was never about the company.

It was about him. And the man he once loved, who vanished ten years ago, is walking through the lobby.In the Serpent's Shadow is a razor-sharp political thriller about power, betrayal, and the dangerous moment when the past stops being history and starts being a weapon.The serpent is in the light now. And Caleb Rourke is finally the one holding the pen.