Almost Enough

A Perfect House. A Perfect Plan. A Record That Never Lies.

The Spur End Estate was built to be the most secure home in the Wood River Valley. Designed by tech visionary Layla Rowan, the house is governed by NILA, a sophisticated smart-home system that logs every heartbeat, every door latch, and every kilowatt of energy drawn from the grid. In this house, there is no such thing as an unobserved moment.

Cal Morrow is a retired forensic accountant who came to Ketchum, Idaho, to escape a life of auditing other people’s lies. But when he is brought in to review the Rowan Foundation’s books, he finds a ledger that doesn’t balance—a “trust error” hidden beneath layers of meticulous documentation.

During an exclusive gathering of Layla’s inner circle, the unthinkable happens: Layla is found dead in her bed. The room is undisturbed, the security logs are green, and the cameras show nothing. To the local authorities, it looks like a natural tragedy.

But Cal Morrow doesn’t look at tragedy; he looks at the arithmetic.

As a winter storm seals the valley, Cal begins to audit the night of the murder. He discovers a four-minute and fourteen-second gap in the record—a window of blindness created by a killer who knows NILA’s tolerances as well as its creator.

In a world of “meticulous” performances and engineered alibis, Cal must follow a trail of data that the killer forgot existed. Because even in a perfect plan, there is always a seam—and the record never truly ends.