Her Name Under The Paint

Iris Vale strips paint for a living, reading the history of a surface one layer at a time. When she is hired to restore a 1967 Triumph Bonneville fuel tank, the solvents reveal more than vintage green enamel. Hidden beneath the layers is a master list of forty-one children moved through an underground rescue network decades ago. The names are written in her late mother's distinctive handwriting. And near the bottom, Iris finds the birth name she never knew she had.

Milo Kane inherited his father's motorcycle shop, a laundering charge, and a thirty-year-old secret. He hired Iris knowing exactly who she was, hoping she could decipher her mother's records before the men hunting the list tear his life apart. When fake federal agents lock down the shop, Iris and Milo are trapped inside with the evidence.

Forced to trust a man who engineered their meeting, Iris must race to restore the tank and seal the names back under the green paint. But the people searching for the archive are closing in, and protecting the forty-one lives on that list means risking the one life she has just begun to understand.