The Ghost Label (en Inglés) - Vivienne Ashcroft

Six weeks after Paris, CIPHER thought they understood what they were fighting. They were wrong.

LUXE is not one network - it is twelve. The cell CIPHER dismantled in France was a decoy, deliberately sacrificed to redirect their attention while the real operation moved four hundred and thirty billion dollars in laundered arms money across Dubai, Singapore, and Sao Paulo. CIPHER has been chasing a ghost. The ghost has been leading them exactly where it wants them.

Now Sloane Voss and Ezra Calloway go deeper - into Dubai Fashion Week, LUXE's most active operational hub, where luxury bags don't just carry secrets. They carry cryptocurrency converted from illegal arms deals, laundered through the world's most exclusive accessories market in an architecture so elegant it looks identical to legitimate wealth.

But the biggest revelation isn't financial. A classified intelligence file surfaces the connection neither Sloane nor Aria Voss-Okafor - LUXE's most dangerous inside operative - ever knew existed. They share a father. The half-sister reveal doesn't happen gently. It happens in a service corridor with a LUXE security sweep twelve meters away.

And beneath all of it: a mole. Someone inside CIPHER has been feeding LUXE their playbook since before Paris. When LUXE detonates its contingency - burning CIPHER's entire operational network in forty minutes - the question is no longer who. It's how long they've been inside.

Book Two of The Couture Code trilogy. Must be read after Stitched in Silence.