The Woman in the Red File

A red file says investigative journalist Nadia Serrano will be dead in seventy-two hours. The only man who can decode it is the ex-husband she has spent five years refusing to call.
Daniel Chen once loved Nadia enough to build an encryption system from their shared memories - and betrayed her badly enough to destroy their marriage. Now the same private history has been weaponized. A trail of dead women leads back to Palimpsest, a covert system designed to make a manufactured record look more credible than the truth, and to Adrian Kessler, the powerful contractor who knows exactly how dangerous unverifiable memory can become.
To survive the clock, Nadia must work beside the man who taught her why love without consent is still control. Every recovered clue pulls them deeper into the conspiracy that ruined Daniel's career, shattered their marriage, and may now be using Nadia as the final key.
The closer they get to the Black Archive, the harder it becomes to separate old desire from new trust. Daniel cannot undo what he did. Nadia cannot survive by pretending she never loved him. This time, every choice - professional, personal, and intimate - has to belong to the person making it.
Because the red file is not only predicting Nadia's death. It is testing whether the truth can survive her.