Luke had it all: a hard-won seat at a respectable private equity firm, a marriage built on shared ambition, a future secured by carried interest.

Then came the portfolio that upended everything.

Forced into building a new life out West, he finds himself drawn into investigating a crime only he can deduce. He is drawn into where hidden powers in high finance collide with public consequence. Each revelation drags him deeper into a reckoning - not only with those who shape the system, but with the man he became inside it.

M.R. Colwyn writes under a pseudonym. A veteran of 15 years in institutional investing, this is the book he always wanted to read but could never find.

The story draws from real experience in private equity — technical authenticity paired with the emotions of a life lived inside the IRR factory. Published one chapter at a time, straight to readers.