The Traitor's Siege Diary
An Epic Fantasy of Deception and Survival

About this book:

Julian is the perfect traitor: a quartermaster who has spent three years selling his fortress's grain, steel, and secrets to the besieging warlord, covering every theft with flawless forgeries in the Master Inventory. But when the enemy's trebuchets begin their nightly thunder and the capital's most feared auditor arrives at dawn to count every sack and bolt, Julian's meticulous fraud begins to unravel. Trapped between the Iron Sentry captain who suspects a rat in the walls and a bureaucrat who can spot a scratched ledger line at twenty paces, he has until morning to rewrite seven years of lies—while the real enemy waits for a signal he may never send.

What follows is a siege thriller fought not with swords but with quills, seals, and the terrifying precision of a man who knows that in a fortress starving behind stone walls, a ledger entry is deadlier than a crossbow bolt. Julian must invent fictitious shipments, forge dead men's signatures, and turn nine hundred sacks of sawdust into "structural insulation" before the auditors stick their probes into the vaults—all while Captain Vance stations his elite killers at the very sally port Julian sold to the besiegers.

*The Traitor's Siege Diary* is a masterclass in tension: a locked-room heist inside a crumbling citadel, where every altered number buys another hour of life, and the line between survival and treason is written in ink that won't dry fast enough. For readers who love *The Lies of Locke Lamora* and *The Blade Itself*—a debut that turns bureaucracy into a weapon and makes a coward's calculations the most thrilling battle on the page.