The Homestead Rule

He came to Alaska to bury his past. Instead, he found his father's war.

Disgraced tech CEO Leo Thorne wants nothing to do with the off-grid Alaskan homestead he escaped fifteen years ago. But when his estranged survivalist father, Elias, dies under mysterious circumstances, Leo is forced to return to the one place he swore he’d never see again. His plan is simple: sign the papers, sell the land, and get back to civilization as fast as possible. He remembers his father as a paranoid recluse who traded a brilliant engineering career for a fortress of solitude.

The official story is a simple hunting accident. But the facts don’t add up. A cryptic warning from a wary local, the impossible clue on a pair of muddy boots, and the discovery of a hidden, encrypted ledger reveal a horrifying secret. His father wasn’t a hermit; he was the broker and secret-keeper for a community’s dark, illegal economy. Now, a new, more ruthless crew has taken over, and their clandestine operation is worth more than money—it’s worth killing for.

When a team of professional killers descends on the homestead to erase the last remnant of his father's legacy, Leo is cut off, outmatched, and stripped of the technology that once defined him. Hunted through a wilderness that is actively trying to kill him, his only weapon is the ghost of his father's lessons, the brutal survival skills he once rejected. To uncover a corporate conspiracy that reaches to the darkest corners of the globe, and to avenge the man he is only just beginning to understand, Leo must become the one thing he never wanted to be: his father's son.