A Smile With Teeth

They call him The Alchemist. Noah Elian is the most effective conflict mediator in the world. With a perfect smile and an unnerving calm, he can walk into a boardroom boiling with hostility or a warlord's tent crackling with tension and spin chaos into peace. He is a legend in the halls of power, a man who gets the impossible deal done. But the man himself is a fraud. His legendary calm is a mask, a meticulously constructed fortress to hide a lifetime of trauma and a crushing panic disorder. His greatest weapon is a lie. Now, the architect of that lie has returned. Damien Kofi—Noah's charismatic, ruthless, and predatory mentor—resurfaces not as an ally, but as an enemy. In a masterful act of betrayal, Damien frames Noah for a vast global conspiracy, turning the world against his most prized protégé. Hunted by forces he can't see and haunted by the ghosts he can no longer escape, Noah is stripped of his reputation, his allies, and his carefully constructed mask. To survive, he must do the one thing he was trained never to do: tell the unvarnished truth. The professional liar must make one final, devastating confession, even if it means destroying the very man he has pretended to be his entire life. A gripping psychological thriller, A Smile With Teeth is a story about the savage price of the masks we wear to survive, and the terrifying, liberating power of letting them crack.