She reads lips. They erase lives.

When an investigation into a prestigious investment firm in Washington, D.C. turns deadly, Sally Raines, a reformed forensic accountant with an unusual edge, must expose a multimillion-dollar fraud and stop the men who will kill to keep it secret.

A childhood spent in silence taught Sally to read lips—and people. It kept her alive, but there were consequences. After prison, she rebuilt her life with a master’s degree and a small forensic accounting firm, a quiet second chance she refuses to waste.

Hired to vet a “can’t-miss” opportunity at the blue-chip firm, Sally and her partners—Navi, a brilliant hacker, and Cricket, her former cellmate and a street-born protector with a big heart—peel back the polish and find rot underneath: duplicate ledgers, falsified returns, and a cover-up protected by money and power.

But the fraud is only the beginning. Their discovery triggers a ruthless retaliation: a mentor’s home is ransacked, a professor is stabbed, a kidnapping goes violently wrong. With a corrupt probation officer tightening the noose around Sally’s past, the trio must rely on their skills, their wits, and the fragile community they’ve rebuilt to survive.

In a city built on wealth and power, they must decide: stay hidden and survive, or step out of the shadows and become the reckoning for an empire built on deceit.

Three Little Birds is a story about truth, redemption, and the strength of found family.

Perfect for readers who love gritty resilience, brilliant underdogs, and thrillers with heart.