Beneath Malta's postcard-perfect blue skies and sunlit harbours, deceit casts long shadows. Marica Debono knows the cost of ambition. Once a rising star among Malta's financial investigators, her relentless pursuit of justice has brought her career - and her personal life - to the brink of collapse. Questionable tactics in her latest case, leads to the hunter becoming the hunted and someone wants her to pay. As her own methods come under scrutiny, Marica is caught in a storm of personal and professional turmoil. Marica's world is unravelling. Her marriage is collapsing, the bond with her beloved sister Ilaria threatens to break and a friend from her past resurfaces, with a desperate plea tied to a long-buried guilt. As the fallout threatens everything she holds dear, Marica wonders - was it justice she was serving, or herself? When the past resurfaces and danger lurks in the shadows, Marica must confront the chilling reality: in a world built on deception, even those she pursues may not be what they seem. Some lies are carefully constructed. Others are the ones we tell ourselves. And some come from the truths we choose to leave unsaid. Book 1 in The Malta Series Other books in the series: The Maltese Web.