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Published Last activity 6 Jul 26 at 07:10 PM

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Genre: Action/AdventureGenre: Modern/ContemporaryGenre: Mystery/CrimeGenre: Political/IntrigueGenre: Thriller/SuspensePlotters & Thread TrackersWriting - AU

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thread trackersherlockOCssmugglinghackingcrimethrillersherrinford holmesjames sterlingdanny hernandez

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Project MuseJames Sterling IIIDanny Hernandez
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Risky Business

smugglers / hackers / ghost networks / espionage

What begins as standard work banter between a shameless smuggler and his guarded hacker spirals into something far more dangerous and intimate.

Digital wars. Rival smugglers. Ghost networks. Assassination attempts. London noir wrapped around expensive whiskey, bloodstained tailoring, and men who keep pretending attachment is tactical.

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case files

Ghosted

Sterling’s office, encrypted frequencies, jazz, old scotch, and the first crack in the system.

Chasing Ghosts

Sherrinford tracks vanished cargo through a shell game designed to look forgettable.

In The Company Of Phantoms

Dead names refuse to stay dead, and James treats resurrection like a personal inconvenience.

Ghosts Know My Name

James arms himself and steps back into the dark wearing the predator like tailored clothing.

Specter's Mark

Trauma echoes through Sterling’s penthouse while Sherrinford refuses to sleep.

Trace Evidence: The Red Flag Protocol

The office explodes and Danny moves before anyone else understands the clock.

A Tomb With A View

The safehouse is absurdly luxurious because Sterling apparently cannot suffer modestly.

Trust Is A Loaded Gun

Marcus Vale arrives carrying history, loyalty, and several forms of danger.

The Long Way Home Protocol

Danny transports betrayal across state lines and refuses to say the destination aloud.

The Return of Daniel Hernandez

Danny disappears. Daniel walks into the interrogation room instead.

Cross-Check

Violence can break people. Holmes is needed to break the lies.

When Home Finds You Anyway

Texas sunlight, grocery aisles, and the dangerous softness of ordinary life.

Collateral Loyalty

The barn becomes the place where loyalty and fury have it out.

Sorting Through Ghosts

Danny wakes from the kind of nightmare that knows exactly where to cut.

Lightning Never Hits Twice (Except When It Does)

James sits with thunder, tequila, and the old rot of Glass Rose.

The Liability Equation

Sherrinford calculates survival and does not like the answer.

Chosen, Repeated

James faces the mirror, the grafts, and what his body still owes.

Showing Up | Crossover with Collateral Flirtation

Adrian watches Danny move through a quiet morning without performance.

The Space Between Hits

Danny wakes early, watches Adrian sleep, and overthinks affection like a tactical problem.

Chosen, Repeated II

Shipping manifests, family clutter, and the investigation grinding back into motion.

Take The Lead

The barn shifts from drills to dancing, because apparently healing has footwork.

Retry Without Exception

A date deadline hits Sherrinford’s screen. Panic loads successfully.

Back In Range

Danny reads James in the training yard like a body-shaped threat report.

Holding The Morning

James hears departure in the pre-dawn quiet and listens before he moves.

Strategic Review

Porch light, beer, tequila, and the postmortem nobody can fully joke through.

Customs And Ghosts

Bad paperwork starts looking too boring, which is usually where the bodies are buried.

Tag The Ghost

The dock runs on floodlights, steel, diesel, and the lie of routine.

The Fourth Man

A former associate of James's reappears.

Dead In The Water

A midnight race to surveil a mysterious warehouse before the trail goes cold.

Sherrinford Holmes is supposed to stay behind the screen. Then people started trying to kill him. James sterling does not take kindly to threats against his people. someone will pay.

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