The Spider Eats
Jane Perdue
Type: Beta project
Genre: Thriller, contemporary
Word count: 77,000
Warnings: Graphic sexual content
Sophie Preston knows how power works—and how men use it. An accomplished senior consultant, she has built a career on empathy, precision, and control. But when ritualized murders expose buried betrayals and police suspicion closes in, Sophie must stay ahead of detectives, colleagues, and powerful men. If she fails, exposure would destroy everything she built.
Sophie Preston knows how power works—and how men use it. A perceptive, empathetic senior consultant, Sophie built a successful career by cultivating a reputation for business savvy and precision. When her boss becomes the latest victim in a series of ritualized killings, detectives discover that beneath his tailored suits and corporate mythology lay a hidden world of leather, luxury, and carefully purchased submission.
The investigation soon turns toward Holland Swindell, a wealthy woman with a carefully guarded past whom Sophie considers her closest friend. With scrutiny tightening and loyalties shifting, Sophie must stay several moves ahead of the detectives, her colleagues, and a system built to protect men who hold all the cards. If she fails, exposure would destroy everything she built.
Jane Perdue is the former principal and co-owner of two professional development firms and previously served as Vice President of Human Resources for Fortune-ranked telecommunications companies, including Comcast and AT&T. Her nonfiction credits include co-authoring Women and the Paradox of Power, contributing to two leadership anthologies, and publishing articles in Forbes, SmartBrief, The Glass Hammer, and other outlets. The Spider Eats, Jane’s first fiction manuscript, plays off her workplace experience. She speaks and writes about leadership, power, and gender social justice issues. She loves chocolate, TED talks, kindness, paradox, and shoes.
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