The Sealed Deal

A sealed file. A dead witness. A name buried in the system — his own.

Former prosecutor David Mercer thought leaving the Jackson County DA's office would put corruption in his rearview. Until an unmarked envelope lands on his doorstep, dragging him into a sealed case he once ignored… and someone made sure he'd never remember.

Now Mercer's being watched. Evidence has vanished. And a buried name — Klein Holdings — threatens to unravel everything he thought he left behind.

As he digs deeper, he uncovers something worse than a cover-up: a network of silence, sealed by the very system he once served.

The Sealed Deal is a pulse-pounding legal thriller prequel to Inheritance of Lies, the debut novel in the David Mercer series. If you like smart investigators, morally gray dilemmas, and conspiracies that cut too close to the truth, you'll devour this tightly-wound short story.