Eighteen hours after the worst day of her career, Vesper Krell wakes to four enemy fighters in her airspace and a death warrant moving through her own chain of command. Someone wants her silent. Someone wants Aldric *erased*. They have one weapon left: the truth - **eight names, eight "operational necessities," eight murdered districts filed as routine paperwork.** Broadcasting it is treason. Burying it is worse. Auntie is still rebuilding, clawing back one capability at a time - learning, for the first time, to **override the very orders she was built to obey.** And in a cathedral's rubble, Vesper finds a green ceramic bowl that rewrites how her father really died - and plants one unbearable question about the man she's falling for. Did Aldric *earn* his rank... or inherit it from her family's grave? **Forbidden romance - military conspiracy - mecha warfare. System Zero, Book 2.**
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