For most of her life, Josslyn Jacks has balanced the expectations of others with her own instinct for independence.

But her newest assignment pushes her into a world she never asked to enter and one she may not fully understand.

This isn’t a simple request or a favor—it’s a mission, and one layered with risk disguised as responsibility.

She’s asked to get close—too close—to the inner workings of a situation tied to people more dangerous than she realizes. The request comes from someone she believes she can trust. But trust has teeth in Port Charles.

The assignment requires her to observe, to ask subtle questions, to blend in while paying attention to every unspoken tension. It places her in rooms where lies outweigh truths, where everyone is performing, and where being the quietest person makes you the most valuable—and the most vulnerable.

Meanwhile, Tracy Quartermaine is fighting her own uphill climb. Her influence once commanded entire rooms. But now, responsibilities pile faster than resolutions, and every solution seems to create two more problems. While she tries to preserve her status, the world beneath her shifts.

Felicia Scorpio, on the other hand, accepts a case that threads itself right into the core of Josslyn’s mission. Though Felicia doesn’t yet know it, her work may become the very spark that exposes the game Josslyn has been drafted into.

The danger for Josslyn isn’t immediate harm—it’s slow entanglement. Being trusted is a blessing until it’s a trap. Acting brave is useful until bravery becomes recklessness.

This mission is about intelligence, about control, and about patience more than courage. And whether she knows it yet or not, the moment she said yes, she stepped into a story already unfolding—one where every player has secrets, and every secret comes with a cost.

The only question left:
When the truth surfaces, will Josslyn be the one holding it—
or will she be buried under it?