Steel Vice

In a northern town where the silence feels deliberate and the rot runs deep, Samantha "Sam" Moore is running out of reasons to stay quiet. Once a military investigator, now a woman adrift, she returns home after her brother's mysterious death — only to find that the line between justice and survival has long since blurred.

Her former police contact, Officer Jenna Clarke, is weeks from retirement and bone-tired of pretending that the system she's served still works. She's seen too much rot, signed too many reports that went nowhere. But when Sam shows up with questions no one wants asked, Jenna has to decide whether upholding the law still means doing the right thing — or if it ever did.

And in the middle of it all is Natalie Chen, a young journalist with too much heart for her own good, chasing the same truth that could destroy them all. She believes stories can change the world. Sam knows better. Jenna used to.

Each woman carries her own version of justice, her own ghosts, her own threshold for compromise. Together, they pull at the threads of something vast and ugly — until the town itself starts to unravel.

In a world where silence protects the powerful and truth has a body count, three women must decide what they're willing to burn to bring it into the light.

Gritty, introspective, and sharply human, this is a story about loyalty, corruption, and the quiet violence of doing the right thing when no one else will.