HIDDEN IDENTITY: 5

Sloane Mercer built her life on exposing hidden lies.Then she found one buried inside her own name.When a sealed Black Crown file opens inside Ironcrest Security, Sloane discovers photographs from a past she has tried to forget, a hospital wristband tied to the brother she believed was gone, and a warning that changes everything.If Mercer ever accesses this file, Phase Three is active.Now Sloane is no longer just investigating the enemy. She is the target, the trigger, and possibly the key to a system designed to erase people, rename them, and control them under the language of protection.Bishop knows more about Black Crown's old world than he wants to admit. His past carries another name, another set of orders, and a silence that may have helped the very machine now hunting Sloane. But when the enemy tries to isolate her, Bishop makes a choice that cannot be hidden. He stands beside her, not in front of her. Not as a handler. Not as a guard. As the man who refuses to let her become a file.As the trail pulls Sloane from a screenless safehouse to a forgotten apartment, from a false brother to a hidden identity vault, every answer cuts deeper. Her brother may be alive. Her name may not be the first one she was given. And the people who stole her past have been watching her long enough to know exactly which fears to use.But Black Crown made one mistake.It studied Sloane as if she would always fight alone.With Ironcrest at her side, Sloane must decide what belongs in the record, what deserves to be burned, and who she chooses to be when every stolen name is finally dragged into the light.Hidden Identity is a clean romantic suspense novel filled with danger, buried secrets, found family, emotional tension, and a slow burn love story built on trust, truth, and the courage to choose your own name.