About The Second Law: Lynn Dayton Thriller #3 by L. A. Starks
Discounted by 91% December 2-December 8, 2025 Kindle Countdown Deal. TriCoast Energy executive Lynn Dayton is visiting the company’s San Francisco refinery when it comes under attack. Saddened by the fiery deaths of several workers, she traces the explosion to software malfunctions and contacts cybersecurity chief Kanak Singh to track it back to the source. The second law refers to the second law of thermodynamics: it means that in an isolated system everything tends towards chaos. Lynn is still reeling when a TriCoast lease bidding manager is killed in New Orleans. The seeming motive is the theft of his computer containing billion-dollar secret offshore bid plans. Then her long-time mentor and good friend is gunned down in front of her in a Louisiana swamp. What terrible plan lies behind all these crimes? Lynn races against time to uncover a complex plot that stretches from murder in Vienna to a natural gas terminal attack in the Baltic to a major Caribbean oil installation off U.S. shores. Lynn is baffled as she learns of a high-stakes takeover bid by a mysterious group called the Second Law. Who are these people? Worse, who is the mole inside TriCoast that is feeding them so much deadly information? Unless she can find out, thousands more are scheduled to die.
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Author Bio:
Texan L. A. Starks is the author of the award-winning Lynn Dayton thriller series: 1) 13 DAYS: THE PYTHAGORAS CONSPIRACY, 2) STRIKE PRICE, and 3) THE SECOND LAW, and 4) WINNER’S CURSE. The SECOND LAW was a mystery/thriller quarterfinalist in the 2019 BookLife Prize competition, an Action/Adventure finalist in the 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards and was a quarterfinalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.
Starks is honored “Risk Reduction” was chosen for the second SinC North Dallas anthology, Reckless in Texas, published in March, 2023. A previous short story, “Gumbo Filé,” was published in the Dreamspell Nightmares thriller anthology. “Essence of Genius, Genius of Essence” won honorable mention in WOW!’s Spring 2021 Flash Fiction contest.
L. A. Starks earned a B.S. (engineering) at Tulane University and an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Besides writing high-stakes thrillers, through her energy investment-focused company, Starks Energy Economics, LLC, she has been a paid contributor to Seeking Alpha, writing over 700 energy investment articles (1.3 million words, but who’s counting?) Starks has served as development co-chair, investment oversight chair, and treasurer of the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. She has also run twenty-two half-marathons.
Starks was in the first group of 25 (out of 33,000+ graduates in the last century) inducted into the Ponca City High School Hall of Fame.