Black Veil Protocol

Nia Reyes studies patterns for a living. Threat clusters. Traffic spikes. Ghost accounts. The tiny flaws hidden inside systems built to look clean.

Then she finds one that should not exist.

A buried data thread links a dozen atrocities across Earth, Luna, and orbit-bombings, station breaches, transport massacres blamed on radicals and separatists. Different targets. Different methods. Same invisible signature. The attacks were not prevented because they were never meant to be. They were designed.

Before Nia can get the proof out, her access is burned, her partner is killed, and every security channel on the Moon brands her a traitor.

Then the man sent to bring her in steps out of the dark.

Gabriel Reyes died in a launch disaster three years ago. Nia buried an empty casket and built her life around the hole he left. Now he is alive, armed, and working for the machine trying to silence her.

As riots spread from the lunar south pole to low Earth orbit, Nia and Gabriel are thrown into a running war through maglev tunnels, crater cities, and collapsing stations. To expose the truth, they will have to survive each other first.

And if Nia is right, the next attack will not be a warning.

It will be a beginning.