A secretive meeting at Seattle’s most exclusive gentlemen’s club sends investigative journalist Samantha Janzen deep undercover—this time, as someone else entirely.

Her assignment: pose as a male English teacher at The Bastion, an elite Jesuit boarding school, and uncover the truth behind the suspicious death of her boss’s son.

Disguised as “Samuel Higgins,” Sam enters a world built on privilege, control, and deeply buried secrets—one hostile to everything she truly is. But the more she digs, the more she realizes this isn’t just about a dead teacher. It’s about power, silence, and a legacy of violence that goes far beyond the school gates.

From the author of Feral Game, The Bastion is a taut psychological thriller about identity, truth, and how far one woman will go to expose a system built to erase her.