The Settlement Clause: A Mara Kessler Thriller

By K. R. Talon

The fraud is bigger than she thought. And she's already inside it.

Risk analyst Mara Kessler exposed a market manipulation scheme that cost her everything - her job, her name, her sense of what the system was built to protect. She was cleared. She was not warned.

Now a paralegal is dead, a chain of fraudulent structured settlements runs through six shell trusts to a consortium no one has named publicly, and a federal confirmation hearing is twenty-two hours away. Mara has the pattern. She doesn't have the proof. And the deeper she goes, the clearer it becomes that someone inside the conspiracy has been expecting her.

The Settlement Clause is a taut financial thriller about information as a weapon, trust as a liability, and the specific danger of being the person who asks the right questions too late.

The Dark Pool Series, Book 2

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQJ2M2PL
• ISBN13: 9798250028844
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"