What if the wealthy could literally buy years of your life?

Detective Riley Harper thought she'd seen every kind of crime in her fifteen years on the Seattle Police Department. Then she investigates the death of Tommy Valdez—a nineteen-year-old homeless veteran who aged forty years in three days.

The forensic evidence is impossible: cellular damage that suggests decades of rapid aging, mitochondrial breakdown that shouldn't exist, and injection sites from medical equipment that no hospital recognizes. When Riley discovers Tommy had signed up for "medical research" paying impossibly large sums, she uncovers something that shouldn't exist in 2029.

The Shadow Market: an underground network where desperate people auction off years of their own lives to the highest bidder.

Tech billionaires, pharmaceutical executives, and corrupt politicians purchase decades from the poor through illegal biotechnology that literally transfers human lifespan. Children are bred in secret facilities, raised believing they're in elite schools, then harvested for their life force when they reach optimal value.

As Riley goes deeper undercover, she discovers the conspiracy reaches the highest levels of government. Military super-soldiers enhanced with stolen lifespans. Federal judges whose careers span centuries. A secret council preparing for environmental collapse by ensuring only the "worthy" survive.

But when Riley's own teenage niece disappears into the system, the investigation becomes personal. Racing against technology that can age her to death in hours, Riley must expose an operation worth trillions while protecting the children who trust her.

The Shadow Market is a relentless thriller that asks: How far would you go to save innocent lives? What would you sacrifice to stop the ultimate crime?