Raven must have blacked out for a second in a moment of flat, absolute shock.

When she came back to herself, everyone was screaming. The world was a blast of noise and motion all at once. She was pinned and laid limp under the massive, dead weight of Burt Johnson’s corpse.

He’d been about to tell her the truth. She’d been so close, and someone had killed him. Just like that. Brutal. Efficient.

Someone was listening to every word.

Which meant ...