The Quartermaster's Fatal Inventory
A Medieval Space Opera Novella

About this book:

In the hollowed flank of an iron asteroid, Master Quartermaster Odo guards the ledgers of Bastion Void—three centuries of tithes, munitions, and plasma-gel tallied in lampblack ink on vellum. When two thousand barrels of military-grade fuel vanish without a broken seal, the paper trail says one thing and the frostless pipes say another. Someone has been rewriting reality with a razor and a steady hand, and the Armada is only hours away.

Odo is no knight. He wears a wool habit over a doublet, fights with calipers and a desk-knife, and measures treason in ounces of antimatter. But in a station where knights hold swords and quartermasters hold the soup-tureen and shot-lockers, the man who controls the inventory controls the war. As empty vaults multiply and the High Marshal's own seal appears on falsified manifests, Odo descends into the station's guts with a crippled engine-smith and a trembling apprentice, chasing a theft that reaches from the dockyards to the citadel.

*The Quartermaster's Fatal Inventory* fuses the grit of medieval logistics with the scope of space opera—where flow-meters lie, parchment is scraped clean for fraud, and a single misplaced decimal can crack a jump-drive like a boiled egg. Twenty-six chapters of ascending tension, claustrophobic atmosphere, and a protagonist who balances the cosmic scale one careful entry at a time.