Onyx Division - Book Three
The Black Vein
The Black Vein
An ancient meteorite, a ruthless corporate cover-up, and a thirty-year-old murder collide in a high-stakes thriller where the past threatens to destabilize the world’s future.
In the early 1500s, a young indigenous man fleeing Spanish conquistadors pulls a mysterious black stone with glowing blue veins from the Caribbean Sea. Centuries later in 1994, ambitious auditor Kaitlin Jones discovers the same artifact while scuba diving off the coast of Bonaire.
Kaitlin’s discovery coincides with her internal investigation into massive financial fraud at Sadler Energy, a powerful Texas oil company. When corporate executives realize the stone possesses unprecedented, petroleum-destabilizing properties, they view it as the ultimate cover-up for their missing millions. Before Kaitlin can expose the truth, she is silenced by a corporate fixer, and her death is ruled a tragic accident. But the company doesn't realize that before she died, Kaitlin fractured the stone and mailed the pieces to unsuspecting friends.
Decades later, former Marine sniper and elite intelligence operative Alex Rivera visits his family’s Iowa farm, only to uncover a misplaced, unopened letter Kaitlin mailed the day she died. Inside is a warning—and a piece of the meteorite.
As Alex begins pulling at the threads of a thirty-year-old cold case, his colleagues at the top-secret Onyx Division prepare to test a revolutionary AI system on the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. They are entirely unaware that Sadler Energy's reckless experiments with the artifact decades ago have quietly infected the nation's oil supply. With a corporate empire fighting to bury its secrets and a global energy crisis silently brewing in the pipelines, Alex must race to piece together Kaitlin's final puzzle before the damage becomes irreversible.