Silence Between Our Lies

She is sent into the empire's newly restructured Military Administrative Corps under a false identity with one objective: steal three operation files before a critical council session and get out. The target is General Renn Ashavar — the empire's most decorated military mind, a man whose loyalty to the institution he serves has been quietly, methodically coming apart for three years.What she does not expect is a man who already knows she is not who she claims to be. And who has been waiting for exactly the person she is.The operation files contain something larger than either of them anticipated — a twenty-two-year programme of systematic disruption that reaches further than Marev's corruption, further than the new council's investigation, and directly into the substrate connections the Contact has been working to restore.To bring the full picture to light, Isadora will have to do the one thing eight years of constructed identities has made almost impossible.Be herself.Slow burn. Spy thriller. Found identity. A woman who has been everyone else learning who she actually is — and finding, unexpectedly, someone who already knew.