Operation Code Red: Where the Red Line Turns Beautiful and Deadly

Where local law enforcement ends, Code Red begins.
Senior Deputy Marshal Millicent Frost commands the Directorate’s most dangerous warrant team: five red-haired deputies sent into collapsed jurisdictions, hostage zones, black-market stations, and political dead ends where ordinary officers cannot survive.
Their rules are simple: save civilians, take prisoners alive when possible, preserve the evidence, and never let fear become an excuse for brutality.
Then a clean arrest leaves behind an impossible warning.
The wound you cannot see is the one already wearing your skin.
Something has followed Code Red from the shadows—something that speaks in their voices, studies their fears, and wears trust like a disguise. As the team turns inward, Millicent must confront the truth she has tried hardest to control: sometimes the greatest danger is not the monster at the door, but the locked room inside yourself.
To save one of their own, Code Red must enter a hidden colony buried beneath lies and face the Skin Walker before it learns them completely.
A tactical sci-fi thriller about justice, restraint, loyalty, and the red line between mercy and ruin.