Avalanche: A Lane Lamore Thriller (Lane Book 8)

A gunshot on a silent mountain. An avalanche that nearly buries the truth along with the man who pulled the trigger. Lane Lamore and her partner Charlie are camped beneath a full January moon when the shot rings out - and the mountain comes down seconds later. After they get dug out they find a snow safety forecaster dead in the debris, and beside him, barely alive, the resort executive who swears it was self-defense. Three weeks later, that executive cuts his ankle monitor and vanishes into the same backcountry he's spent twenty-two years learning better than anyone alive. A two-million-dollar bond is on the line, and Lane is the only recovery agent who knows this terrain well enough to bring him back. What she finds waiting for her in Alpenglow Village is worse than a shooting. Falsified risk assessments. A softened safety rating sold to buyers as gospel. A hundred and forty ski-in units built on ground a murdered man refused to certify as safe - and a fortune riding on nobody ever finding out why. The chase runs through black-bear backcountry and onto ice that shouldn't hold anyone's weight. What Lane drags out of that water isn't just a fugitive. It's proof. The Avalanche is the eighth novel in the Lane Lamore series - fast, cold, and built on the same unglamorous arithmetic that's driven every book since The Wrong Feet: somebody signed something they shouldn't have, and somebody else paid for it.