Corruption loves a sealed room. Cal Mercer prefers a crowbar.
When a freight bridge at East Mainline starts groaning under falsified loads, Cal and sharp-eyed clerk Lysa Marr uncover something far worse than local graft. Bridges are being sabotaged. Convoys are being staged in advance. Casualty forms are waiting before the dead are even counted. And every ‘accident’ comes with a tidy packet ready to blame the wrong people.
What starts as one bad road turns into a hunt through relay yards, ferry crossings, shadow ledgers, and replacement convoys as Cal punches his way up a chain of lies that reaches far beyond one district office. Because this isn’t just theft. It’s a system — one built to manufacture collapse, seize control, and write ordinary workers off as acceptable loss.
But Cal, Lysa, and a growing line of furious road crews have a bad habit of dragging the truth into daylight.
And once the road starts naming names, the people at the top have a problem no stamped form can fix.
RPG Hero for Hire: Book 3 — Controlled Loss is a gritty, action-packed LitRPG-flavoured fantasy adventure packed with brutal fights, public reckonings, dark humour, and the kind of hero who solves corruption with equal parts stubbornness and violence.
The roads are breaking. Good thing Cal Mercer is worse.
Genre: GameLit
When a freight bridge at East Mainline starts groaning under falsified loads, Cal and sharp-eyed clerk Lysa Marr uncover something far worse than local graft. Bridges are being sabotaged. Convoys are being staged in advance. Casualty forms are waiting before the dead are even counted. And every ‘accident’ comes with a tidy packet ready to blame the wrong people.
What starts as one bad road turns into a hunt through relay yards, ferry crossings, shadow ledgers, and replacement convoys as Cal punches his way up a chain of lies that reaches far beyond one district office. Because this isn’t just theft. It’s a system — one built to manufacture collapse, seize control, and write ordinary workers off as acceptable loss.
But Cal, Lysa, and a growing line of furious road crews have a bad habit of dragging the truth into daylight.
And once the road starts naming names, the people at the top have a problem no stamped form can fix.
RPG Hero for Hire: Book 3 — Controlled Loss is a gritty, action-packed LitRPG-flavoured fantasy adventure packed with brutal fights, public reckonings, dark humour, and the kind of hero who solves corruption with equal parts stubbornness and violence.
The roads are breaking. Good thing Cal Mercer is worse.
Genre: GameLit
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