Flynn Locke had spent his entire life certain of three things: that money bought absolute power, that people were disposable once they stopped being useful, and that leaving his wife to die in an ICU corridor was, on balance, a shrewd financial decision.

He was wrong about all three, but it was the last one that destroyed him, because it caused him to forget the single most important fact in his whole gleaming world.

A mother fighting for her children is the most dangerous force on this earth.

And there is not enough money in any man’s account to buy his way out of what he has coming when he makes one his enemy.

I did not feel powerful, in that room, whatever it may have looked like from the outside.