Houndstooth

When the justice system fails Black lives, another hand corrects the scales. A wealthy, exonerated predator dangles from his Hollywood balcony. The noose: a houndstooth tie knotted with lethal precision. The mark belongs to the Piano Keys, a vigilante syndicate whispered through law enforcement shadows.

Justine Hendrix vows to prove the ghost story real, yet the
syndicate remains a phantom. She reaches every crime scene seconds too late and finds cooling corpses beside the houndstooth signature. Outmaneuvered, handed a career-ending ultimatum by a Bureau that calls her theory folklore, she fixes on her one lead: Alexander Mason, a consultant with a disciplined mind, a mysterious past, and a magnetism that threatens her focus.

Justine targets Alexander as the assassin codenamed "Houndstooth" and opens an unsanctioned deep-cover operation. She sets a honey trap to flip him, but his allure breaches her defenses. The line between hunter and hunted blurs as their chemistry ignites and fresh bodies drop. She must decide whether she captures a monster or falls prey to the man she swore to destroy.

Houndstooth is Emiliano Styles's debut, a relentless, seductive thriller about justice denied, vengeance earned, and the perilous edge where the heart becomes the deadliest weapon.