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Agent Dalton
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Series: The Chainmark Files, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781067609849
Publisher: Mayne Publishing
Published: Jun 16 2026
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The law created the system.
Her job is to make sure it works.
When the Chainmark Act reshaped the country, Agent Dalton was assigned to a role few people even knew existed.
The Chainmark Compliance Unit.
She visits registered owners.
She interviews the slaves.
She files the reports that prove the system is working.
Officially, everything is functioning exactly as intended.
Unofficially, Dalton sees what never makes it into the paperwork.
Fear disguised as obedience.
Owners who bend the rules too well.
Silence that feels practiced.
Two names keep appearing on her roster.
Brad Wilkins.
Ryan Murphy.
One owns the system.
The other survives it.
Dalton's job is not to judge.
Only to observe.
But the more reports she files, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between compliance... and complicity.
Compliance is approval.
A dark companion novella in the Chainmark Files.
This is a companion novella to Bonds of Slavery and The Boy.
If you haven't read them, start there.
This won't make sense without them, and frankly, it's not meant to.
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