DEAD DROP: THE COZY CRYPTO CAPER

She's snowed in. She's broke. And she's just been handed a black box with $50,000 inside.

Riley Carter, the newly minted "eight-bit detective," is trapped by a blizzard at the Beehive Inn in Wisdom Creek, Montana. With her bank account running on fumes, she accepts a desperate online job offer from Brady "NoCap" Schiller, a famously toxic influencer. The down payment? A mysterious black box loaded with fifty thousand dollars in a brand-new cryptocurrency called SoulCalibur.

The gig sounds simple enough: sit in secretly on a video call and figure out which of two crypto-billionaire brothers is actually an AI deepfake. But Riley quickly discovers she's being set up as the perfect patsy for a massive pump-and-dump scheme.

Suddenly, her carefully guarded real life collides with the darkest corners of the web. Riley is battling a bot swarm determined to destroy her reputation, dodging terrifying real-world death threats, and surviving a live swatting attempt. Armed with her socially awkward hacker friend AirZonk, the steady wisdom of Sheriff Waterhouse, and the incredibly reluctant help of an FBI agent, Riley has to step off the internet chess board and bring the fight to the real world. If she fails, she loses what's left of her reputation—and maybe a lot more.