Help with my pick of covers: Here is the back of the book summary.
She wasn’t supposed to be home.
Seventeen-year-old Callie Mercer stays home from school expecting a quiet day. Instead, she hears the sound no one wants to hear—a deliberate metallic click where silence should be. The security system is down. The exits are blocked. And two skilled intruders are already inside.
They’ve studied the house for months. They came for her mother’s priceless necklace—a symbol of legacy and power. What they didn’t plan for was Callie.
Raised by a Special Forces father who taught her balance before strength and control before emotion, Callie understands something her attackers don’t: survival isn’t about panic—it’s about decision. With police minutes away and no safe place to hide, she must outthink men who assumed the house would be empty.
But the invasion is only the beginning.
As hidden recordings expose a powerful political figure willing to erase his past at any cost, the real battle shifts from hallways to headlines—and from fear to consequence.
This isn’t a story about revenge.
It’s about standing steady when the world leans.
They chose the wrong house.