TradeSecrets:
PROVENANCE

The past is not a single record.

Maya James arrives in Brussels to investigate a multinational defense-record dispute surrounding ATLAS VECTOR, a failed defense program whose history should already be settled.

Instead, two legitimate records survive.

Both are authentic. Both come from real institutional chains. Both support materially different versions of responsibility for what happened.

The provenance specialist assigned to determine how one record displaced the other as the authoritative version disappears— and is later found dead.

Maya's investigation takes her through defense contractors, multinational institutions, custody records, procurement systems, independent laboratories, insurers, national delegations, and the bureaucratic machinery that decides which version of the past survives on top.

But the deeper Maya traces the disputed history, the more the investigation begins to intersect with another provenance problem: her own.

TradeSecrets: PROVENANCE pushes the series into its most personal territory yet as Maya discovers that Axiom Strategic Group's interest in her may have begun long before she ever joined the company.