THE IMPOSTER'S CROWN: A Novel Hardcover – January 20, 2026

The System Failed Her. The Truth Will Save Her.Allison Becker was a detective with a badge, a partner, and a problem. Now she’s none of those things. Pushed out of the force after a public breakdown, she’s battling her own demons when her father, a decorated police veteran, is brutally murdered—a crime the department dismisses as a routine robbery. But Allison knows the truth: Her father found something deadly. And the man who killed him wears the imposter’s Crown.The investigation leads Allison into the dark world of Randy Bell, the city’s most beloved philanthropist and the founder of the powerful Phoenix Foundation. Bell has spent decades building his empire on the blood and silence of victims, using his wealth to buy the loyalty of the police—including Allison’s former superiors.With a brilliant but paranoid hacker named Sam, Allison uncovers a digital roadmap of corruption: the Ledger, which implicates everyone from police lieutenants to high-ranking judges. But when the evidence surfaces, Bell accelerates his final, lethal move—a scheduled public assassination designed to silence the truth forever.Now a desperate fugitive, Allison must race against a ticking clock to expose a conspiracy that controls the law and the media. She has the evidence, but if she steps out of the shadows to deliver it, she risks falling back into the hands of the very men who killed her father.To secure justice, Allison Becker must become the final witness. To stay alive, she must become the invisible target. The Crown is about to fall. The question is, who will survive the crash? Read more