Everything
Burns

Jacob keeps two business cards in his wallet. The first says Business Consultant — and it's legitimate. When a company is bleeding out and the owners need someone who asks no questions and solves problems fast, Jacob is the call they make. He's good at it. Methodical. Discreet. Expensive.

The second card doesn't exist. But if it did, it might say Adjuster. That's the work Jacob does after dark — the kind that involves gasoline, blueprints, staged break-ins, and the particular skill set that polite society would rather pretend isn't for hire. He's equally good at that. Better, maybe. And considerably more careful.

Then Emily moves in next door.

She's smart, funny, and devastating in ways that make Jacob forget every rule he lives by. For the first time he wants something he can't take apart and rebuild: a real life, with a real person, in a world where everything about him is a lie.

And Emily? She's terrified. Not of Jacob — of how much she wants this to be real, and how little it would take to lose him forever.

As Jacob's biggest job spirals toward disaster, the only thing more dangerous than a secret is two people who'd rather burn everything down than say the one honest thing that might save them.

A comedic crime caper with a narrator who swears he's telling you the truth. He's not. But you'll forgive him.