Onward (Conspiracy Meets Truth) by Karen Butner

Some truths are hidden in shadows. The most dangerous ones are hidden in plain sight.

When a man with no name turns up dead on a Monte Carlo superyacht — no fingerprints, no DNA, no record he ever existed — Karynn Bennett and Lauren Hale are pulled from a quiet morning into an investigation that reaches the very architecture of institutional influenceL

Moving from the gilded terraces of Monaco to a snowbound Alpine refuge, from Prague's vast and quietly falsified archives to the marbled corridors of American power.

What they uncover is a network patient enough to rewrite history, sophisticated enough to erase people, and powerful enough to make truth itself editable.

What they build in response is something the conspiracy never anticipated: not an investigation, but a movement. Not exposure alone, but the patient, determined construction of a world in which truth has defenders who refuse to be erased.

Precise, propulsive, and quietly profound — this is a cinematic novel about partnership, memory, and the revolutionary act of insisting that reality belongs to everyone.

The journey continues. And the stakes have never been higher.

The second book in the Onward Series, Conspiracy Meets Truth can be read as a standalone or as the powerful continuation of Life's Crossings — the story of how two extraordinary women found each other and what they chose to do with that discovery.