Margery Flax

Michelle Mason tells herself she’s on vacation. A brief stay in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta. It’s a chance to figure out her next move after the unexpected death of her financier husband, who’s left behind a scandal and a pile of debt. When a good-looking man named Daniel approaches her on the beach, she decides: why not? But the date doesn’t go as either of them planned, and Michelle is caught in a covert operation involving drug runners, thugs, and venture capitalists. If she’s not careful, she’ll end up buried in the town dump, with the rest of the trash.

Iraq vet Ellie McEnroe is down and out in China, trying to lose herself in the alien worlds of performance artists and online gamers. When a chance encounter with a Uighur fugitive drops her down a rabbit hole of conspiracies, Ellie must decide who to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors and operatives claiming to be on her side – in particular, a mysterious organization operating within a popular online game.