
A Novel of Belonging, Exposure, and the Arithmetic of Loyalty
A Pen & Muse Original
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See the membershipYou come to Threshwick to do what you always do: read the accounts, write the report, recommend a path out of a failing marina.
It should be routine. Professional. Contained.
But the books don’t balance.
Offshore companies pay for work that never happens.
Boats slip in without logs.
Money moves cleanly around something no one will name.
And the family who runs this place aren’t villains — just people who made one decision in a bad year and have been living inside its math ever since.
In Dead Reckoning, you don’t watch the story; you become the person whose signature makes it real.
Every conversation shifts your standing.
Every discovery changes what you owe.
Every choice pulls you closer to the truth — or deeper into the arrangement.
You are not a detective.
You are not a criminal.
You are a professional paid to make the numbers make sense.
Until you understand the real brief:
You weren’t hired to find the truth.
You were hired to make sure the truth balances.
And now you have to decide what your signature is worth.
Dead Reckoning is a live, choice-driven coastal thriller where you work inside a closed town, a family with something to protect, and a network that already knows your name.
There is no fixed path and no safe neutral.
What matters is what you learn, what you can prove, and how long you can keep doing your job before someone decides for you.
## Dead Reckoning — Season One You come to Threshwick to do what you always do: read the accounts, write the report, recommend a path out of a failing marina.
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