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The Paper Empire: The Daughters of Empire Series, Book 5 - Rose Sandy

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History's greatest heist wasn't stealing gold. It was rewriting the books.

When Sania cracks a supposedly impenetrable financial database, she doesn't find money trails—she finds ghosts. Billions in colonial-era debt still being collected from nations that won their independence decades ago, funneled through shadow banks to private accounts.

The evidence: thousands of documents with impossible signatures, backdated contracts, and loan terms that were never agreed to.

Someone has been forging history itself. And they're willing to kill to keep it buried.

Within hours of the discovery, the agency's secure servers are breached. Digital evidence vanishes. A veteran archivist is found dead in London, his fingertips burned to prevent identification. The message is clear: some papers were never meant to be seen.

Plunged into a world where the most dangerous weapons are notarized contracts and amended clauses, the team splits up to follow paper trails that span centuries:

Sania infiltrates the world's most secretive data haven in Switzerland, where bankers protect digital vaults containing colonial-era financial secrets—and encounters an enigmatic hacker with an agenda of their own.

Inaya poses as a rare document authenticator, gaining access to private collections of "lost" treaties that reveal systematic plunder disguised as legitimate trade agreements.

Adisa hunts down the last surviving witnesses to massive document shredding operations from the dying days of empire, placing her on a collision course with assassins tasked with silencing the final links to the past.

As they piece together the fragments, a staggering conspiracy emerges: a network of financial architects who've spent decades falsifying the historical record, manipulating markets, and engineering debt crises to maintain control over former colonies.

The team's most powerful enemies yet don't carry guns—they carry briefcases. And they've just realized their paper empire is about to collapse.

THE PAPER EMPIRE delivers white-knuckle tension and intricate conspiracy in a heart-racing thriller where the most dangerous battles are fought with signatures instead of bullets. For readers who love the intellectual chess matches of LE CARRÉ combined with the adrenaline rush of JASON BOURNE.

Some debts are written in blood. Some are written in invisible ink. Both will come due.

One-click now before this explosive truth is redacted permanently.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Uncover Imperial Secrets with Rose Sandy’s Daughters of Empire Series

Daughters of Empire is a high-energy, female-led action-adventure and espionage series by Rose Sandy for readers who love smart heroines, global stakes, and stories that aren’t afraid to dig into the shadow side of empire. Set in the aftermath of the British Empire, the series follows three extraordinary women — Sania, an Indian cyber-sleuth, Adisa, an African field operative, and Inaya, a Middle Eastern corporate-intel expert — recruited into a covert taskforce to expose the crimes, thefts, and cover-ups hidden in imperial archives.

As they chase looted artefacts, suppressed files, offshore fortunes, and powerful families desperate to stay untouchable, the women must confront not only today’s enemies, but the ghosts of colonialism itself. Each book is a globetrotting mission featuring secret auctions, vault break-ins, diplomatic cover, ancient codes, and dangerous men with old money and older grudges.

SERIES READING ORDER

Daughters
of Empire Series Reading Order

Book 1: Legacy of Loot
Book 2: Silent Pledge
Book 3: Shadows of the Sun
Book 4: The Sapphire Conspiracy
Book 5: The Paper Empire
Book 6: The Queen's Labyrinth
Book 7: Codes of the Colony
Book 8: Crimson Contracts
Book 9: The Monarch's Masquerade
Book 10: Sovereign Silhouettes
Book 11: The Colonial Compass
Book 12: The Coin's Other Side
Book 13: Guardians of the Glyphs
Book 14: The Empire's Echo
Book 15: Beneath the Banner
Book 16: The Crown's Chalice
Book 17: Museum of Mysteries
Book 18: Colonial Constellations
Book 19: Diary of the Dispossessed
Book 20: Waltz of the Winds
Book 21: The Opium Oracle
Book 22: Emissaries of the Enigma
Book 23: The Golden Galleon Gambit
Book 24: Realm of the Rune
Book 25: The Empire's Exile
Book 26: Viceroys' Vendetta
Book 27: The Colonial Clockwork
Book 28: The Empire's Eclipsed
Book 29: The Coded Chronicles
Book 30: Pawns of the Palace
Book 31: The Sovereign’s Syndicate

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female-led espionage thriller, artefact heist adventure, secret government taskforce, colonial-era mystery, found-family team of operatives, cyberhacker heroine, spy in high society, race-to-the-file plot, enemies in the British establishment, international action & intrigue, stolen heritage recovery, codebreaking and archives, billionaire cover-up, slow-burn attraction on the mission, women taking down empire from the inside

Perfect for fans of action-adventure with brains, Dan Brown–style secrets, slow-burn team dynamics, and international thrillers that centre women.