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Afterlife Protocol
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fifteen years ago the Ascendancy dragged Xandera Fischer out of Penitentiary Nine and made her useful. Scrubbed her name, wiped her record, handed her a weapon. She's been paying it off in bodies ever since.
One contract remains before EIDOLON - the program that will declare her legally dead and keep her that way, in service, until something finally kills her.
The job takes her back to the rain and smog of the city she grew up in, and to a man who knew her before any of it. What he's carrying is enough to burn a government to the ground.
What it leads her to is a facility that appears on no registry, a ten-year-old girl who should not exist, and an order to leave nothing alive.
Operative Fischer has never once failed to carry out an order.
Today is going to be different.
AFTERLIFE PROTOCOL is a gritty, character-driven space opera about complicity, atonement, and the family you assemble out of the wreckage. For readers of The Expanse and J.S. Dewes's The Last Watch, and anyone who ever wanted Firefly's crew, Mass Effect's alliances, and Andor's politics in a single book.
Book one of the Afterlife Protocol series.
Content notes: graphic violence, strong language, human experimentation on children (non-sexual), imprisonment and torture referenced, on-page character death.
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