The Last Guest at Port Meridian

Port Meridian sits at the edge of competing worlds. Merchants arrive seeking profit. Diplomats arrive seeking advantage. Intelligence officers arrive seeking information. Most leave believing they understand what happened. Most are mistaken. When a frontier shuttle crashes in the desert, intelligence officer Thomas Hale becomes the sole survivor. The dead courier beside him leaves behind a diplomatic satchel, a handful of cryptic orders, and a mission that no one at headquarters seems able to explain. With time running out, Hale is ordered to impersonate the dead man and travel to Port Meridian under an assumed identity. There he finds a city alive with intrigue. Foreign operatives watch one another from hotel dining rooms. Mysterious visitors ask too many questions. Rooms are searched. Archives are breached. A missing government file has attracted the attention of rival intelligence services across the frontier. At the center of it all stands the Meridian Grand Hotel. Its manager, Sofia Marik, remembers everything. Its guests are not always what they claim to be. And somewhere among them is the key to a mystery hidden within forgotten administrative records dating back decades. As Hale follows the trail left by the enigmatic Adrian Kessler, he discovers that the missing file may reveal more than a simple intelligence operation. It may expose a secret capable of reshaping the balance of power between nations. Perfect for readers who enjoy: - Classic spy fiction- Cozy-adjacent mysteries with intelligence themes- Frontier science fiction- Hotel and travel mysteries- Slow-burn conspiracies- Competent protagonists- Diplomatic intrigue- Golden Age storytelling sensibilities The Last Guest at Port Meridian combines the atmosphere of classic espionage novels with the charm of frontier adventure and the puzzle-solving satisfaction of a traditional mystery.

Pages: 193, Paperback, Independently published