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The Scheme: Book One of The Hard Silence
Paperback
Series: Hard Silence, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
They broke his jaw. Mick gave him names.
Jamie only went to the party looking for Paul Sweeney. He left with his jaw broken, his mouth wired shut, and five names burned into him.
Mick McAllister knows those names. He knows where the men drink, where they hide, and what fear can turn a wounded young man into. He offers Jamie protection, patience, and a way back into his own skin.
All Jamie has to do is wait until Mick says it's time.
Cal. Rydo. Lee. Ross. Scars.
One by one, the list becomes a road through blood, guilt, and obedience. But every act of revenge takes something with it, and Paul knows more about that night than he has ever been willing to say. The attack was not random. Jamie may not have been the real target. Mick's help has never been free.
Set across Alexandria, Balloch, and Dumbarton, The Scheme is a brutal Scottish noir about trauma, loyalty, debt, and the dangerous comfort of being claimed by the wrong man.
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