“Zero Balance”: A Venomous Corporate Thriller

Zero Balance, by Ashley Fontainne is a gripping corporate thriller that keeps the pages turning. In a world where corporate power and high finance is everything, the players will stop at nothing, including murder, to get ahead in a deadly serious game. At the Winscott Corporation, the players make up a den of venomous vipers who will strike at the slightest opportunity, and it’s hard to tell who to trust.

Audra brought the whole corporation to its knees by exposing all of their dirty little secrets in order to bring down the villianous Olin, the corporate head who raped her and controlled the others by holding those secrets over their heads. Now, it’s time for Olin’s trial, but the prosecution’s case is falling apart, as the witnesses each meet untimely deaths or just disappear, and Audra is at the top of the witness list.

Told in the third person, past tense, through multiple points of view, the story unfolds at a nerve rattling pace. I give Zero Balance four quills.

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