The Quiet Contract

Eleven contractors are dead in the Sahel and the official story is a militia nobody can find. Junie Marchetti, ex-Army intelligence and ex-federal inmate, knows the coordinates were changed at 4 a.m. by someone with badge access. The someone is her boss's chief of staff. The boss is Ezra Lindqvist, self-made defense billionaire, the man who bought her out of a prison sentence and has never once asked her to repay it. He wants the problem handled internally. She wants it in daylight. Somewhere between a parking garage and a closed subcommittee room, the deal they made four years ago comes due. A slow-burn billionaire military thriller about loyalty, leverage, and one woman who will not be protected.