Front Row for the Devil
Stand-up comedian Natalie Hayes has built her career by turning strangers into punchlines. But when she publicly humiliates the coldest crime boss in Chicago, Enzo Caruso returns the next night, buys the same front-row seat, and silently challenges her to do it again. Then two audience members shout phrases that wipe the smile from his face. Hours later, a city auditor is found dead at Warehouse Nine—and an edited clip makes it look as if Enzo acknowledged the order from Natalie’s stage. Now Natalie’s viral performances are being used to manufacture alibis, frame suspects, and rewrite the truth. To survive, she must work with the one man everyone tells her to fear. Enzo can protect her from bullets, but only Natalie can weaponize the stage that was used against them.
Index
11 Chapters- 1. Chapter 1 — The Most Dangerous Seat in Comedy
- 2. Chapter 2 — The Joke They Turned Into an Order
- 3. Chapter 3 — Every Laugh Has a Timestamp
- 4. Chapter 4 — A Dead Man’s Badge
- 5. Chapter 5 — The Manager Who Sold the Front Row
- 6. Chapter 6 — The Night She Changed the Script
- 7. Chapter 7 — Don’t Stop the Camera
- 8. Chapter 8 — Eight Minutes on Madison Street
- 9. Chapter 9 — The Woman Missing From the Punchline
- 10. Chapter 10 — Two Stages, One Lie
- 11. Chapter 11 — No One Gets an Alibi Tonight
