The Fireline Protocol

When the emergency system becomes the weapon, the most dangerous call is the one that sounds routine.John Avery is a veteran firefighter at Jacksonville's Station 7. He trusts the assignment, protects the patient, verifies the scene and carries the weight of a line-of-duty death he has never been able to explain.Then routine calls begin forming a pattern.False alarms. Corrupted records. Manipulated dispatches. Staged patients. Old voices returning through systems that should have been secure.Someone is using the city's emergency-response network against the people trained to trust it.With forensic psychologist Dr. Dianne Brinkley, Avery begins uncovering a conspiracy built around the buried truth of his partner's death. But every discovery creates another emergency, and every emergency forces Avery toward the same impossible choice: Follow the call or question who sent it.Because the man behind the incidents is not simply attacking first responders.He is studying them.And the next call has been designed specifically for John Avery.The Fireline Protocol is a tense conspiracy thriller combining authentic fire-rescue action, psychological suspense, institutional betrayal, and the courage required to answer honestly when every signal may be a lie.Patients remain patients. The bell does not decide. The house still answers.