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Unanimous Consent
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A routine seizure should have ended with a signature on a chain of custody form. Instead, Joseph, a federal operative who kills only when the moment leaves him no choice, watches a single crate of documents pull the ground out from under everything he thought he understood. Aimee, the ATF analyst assigned to trace the haul, reads records the way others read faces, and one transfer log carries a paper trail reaching back to a cold winter camp of the Revolution. Buried in a founding-era hand is the shape of something that was never meant to survive: a private instrument signed by Washington alone, a concealed willingness to hold the young republic together by force. Someone with reach and patience has spent two centuries keeping it hidden. Now two people have touched it, and the watching has already begun.
Then Aimee dies, and the report calls it an accident. Joseph knows better within hours. Refusing to let the lie close her file, he works her trail the way she would have, following money and records into a conspiracy run by a financier named Gabriel, a man who believes nations endure only through truths carefully managed and secrets carefully kept. Gabriel is not wrong to be afraid. The document proves the founding rested on ideals and on a darker reservation of power, and it cannot be buried without proving him right, or released without arming the very men the founders feared. Joseph is left holding the one truth no one can safely keep and no one can safely destroy, hunted by the institutions he once served, with only a dead woman's method to guide him toward a choice that will cost him everything.
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