The Verdict's Shadow

A tense jury sequestration. A looming deadline. For a professional translator isolated with a group of strangers, hearing too much is an occupational hazard. But when someone inside the closed room starts manipulating the outcome, silence is the only thing keeping the translator's hidden past safe. Decoding the growing danger means drawing closer to the threat—a risk that could expose the very secret they have been guarding their entire life. As the days tick down to a fatal verdict, survival hinges on outsmarting a calculating adversary without ever showing their hand to the rest of the jury.