Alignment

Agent Hannah Jacobs thought distance would fix everything. After a case that pulled her too close to Supervising Special Agent John Reese, she requests a transfer to the Cold Case Division in Telluride, Colorado. A new office, new faces, and no John Reese to complicate things. But the past has a way of following you.Her first assignment is a cold case that refuses to stay cold: the disappearance of Dr. Alexander Clairemont, a brilliant astrophysicist who vanished without a trace, leaving behind nothing but a journal filled with cryptic formulas, planetary alignments, and coordinates leading straight into the heart of Yellowstone National Park. As Hannah begins decoding his notes, she realizes Clairemont didn't disappear by accident, he planned every detail, down to the rare minerals and precise metals required to chase something science alone can't explain.Then her new case gets a new complication: the agent assigned to assist on the classified weapons angle of the investigation is none other than John Reese.Forced back into close quarters, Hannah and John must set aside unfinished business to chase a ticking countdown, a narrow window when the planets align and whatever Dr. Clairemont was searching for might reveal itself. Their investigation takes them deep into Yellowstone's wilderness, guided by a missing man's obsession with second chances, grief, and a door he believed could take him back to the life and the woman he lost.But solving Clairemont's mystery means confronting their own. Stranded together far from the rules and politics of their world, Hannah and John can no longer outrun the truth about what's between them. And when the fallout from their entangled past finally catches up in the form of a formal complaint that threatens both their careers, Hannah is forced to decide how much she's willing to risk for a love she never planned on.Blending a romance, science-driven mystery with slow-burn tension, hard choices, and a countdown that raises the stakes at every turn, The Alignment asks how far someone will go professionally and personally when the universe keeps putting the right person in the wrong place at the right time.