The Quartermaster's Ledger on Kepler
A Military Supply Depot Mystery

About this book:

Quartermaster First Class Alexis Vance doesn't carry a rifle into battle—she carries a ledger. On the frozen, toxic frontier of Kepler-186f, Supply Depot 44-B is a graveyard for careers, but when forty-eight tons of fleet-grade warheads vanish into the bedrock without a crater, Alexis smells a discrepancy no amount of geothermal venting can explain. Three thousand tons of heavy ordnance have disappeared between the orbital elevator and the surface, every missing kilogram tied to one officer's shift. Now the depot is under quarantine, a solar mirror cycle is scorching the perimeter, and the only witness has just driven into a communications blackout with a signal scrambler and a direct hardline to the tether's calibration logs.

What starts as an audit becomes a manhunt across a landscape where the weather kills faster than the enemy. Pursued by her own sergeant, cornered by a decorated fleet commander rewriting the laws of physics to feed a secret war, and trapped in a bunker where the servers are burning the evidence, Alexis has fifteen minutes to get her encrypted proof off-world before the purge completes—and before a "training accident" claims another meticulous auditor. She has no backup, no comms, and a planet trying to freeze her solid. But she has the math, and in the Fleet, the ledger is the only law that matters.

*The Quartermaster's Ledger on Kepler* is a claustrophobic military sci-fi thriller where bureaucracy is a weapon, logistics is a battlefield, and the most dangerous contraband on a frozen world isn't tungsten penetrators—it's the truth.