Disaster put Los Angeles on life support. A heartless killer wants to finish the job.

The city trembles between riot and surrender—a dying beast that won’t quit.

Detective John Zalerian stalks through the wreckage, chasing a ghost who drifts through chaos like smoke through a dying man’s lungs. Every trace he finds turns to vapor in his hands.

Then a witness crawls out of the rubble—fragile, defiant, alive. She lands in John’s heart and the killer’s sights, a spark to bring the city back from the brink.

To save her, John must go where light doesn’t reach—down into the city’s scorched marrow, where refugees trade mercy for survival, and the line between man and monster has burned to cinder.

Heartless is a requiem in fire and shadow—a whispered confession from the edge of the world, where justice flickers like a dying star, and love is the last sin left to commit.

Perfect for fans of James Patterson and Michael Connelly, Heartless takes police work to the end of the world.

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