A whip-smart thriller in the vein of Blake Crouch, Andy Weir, and NealStephenson, Esperance plumbs the depths of a seemingly impossible crime rooted inracism, intergenerational trauma, and an inhuman concept of justice

Detective Ethan Krol is on the twentieth floor of a Chicago apartment building. A father and sonhave been found dead, their lungs full of sea water—hundreds of miles away from the ocean.

Abidemi Eniola has arrived in Bristol, England. She claims to be Nigerian, but her accent iswrong and she can do remarkable things with technology, things that her new friend, HollieRogers, has never seen before. Abi is in possession of a number of heirlooms that need to bereturned to their rightful owners, and Hollie is more than happy to go along for the ride.

But neither Abidemi Eniola nor her heirlooms are quite what they seem. Abi is a target of EthanKrol’s investigations, and Hollie’s life is about to become far stranger than she bargained for. Ina clash of cultures, histories, and different ideas about justice, the consequences will be deadly…