The Varenburg Protocol

In the glittering towers of Crowne & Cartwright, a contested executive transfer becomes the first crack in a facade of digital perfection. When Deputy Director Aurelia Vance is mysteriously reassigned, she discovers that her biometric identity has been silently cloned, recoded, and weaponized. As a series of poisonings and slanderous deepfake scandals tear through the leadership ranks, Lord Julian Ashford—an aristocratic consultant with a taste for cipher and claret—enters a labyrinth where criminals operate as ghosts, identities are forged in code, and the struggle for power reveals the primordial savagery beneath the starched collar of corporate civilization.