The Story
Eleven hours after she watched Frank Vela strangle her business partner with a Hermès tie, Iris Marek is in a one-bedroom safe house in Bayside with a federal marshal she does not trust and a deadline she cannot move. Her testimony goes on the record at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Frank Vela is in custody. His brother is not.
When the safe-house phone rings at 1:14 a.m., she already knows what it means. The address is out. They have eight hours, maybe seven, before someone arrives at her door who is paid to make sure she does not arrive at hers.
A single-night thriller about the math of a witness, the cost of a tie, and the very small spaces between who you used to be and who you have to be by morning.
