The Iron Maiden

There is a fraud operation working out of Greenridge, large enough that Azuria sends a commander after it. The people running it have been at it for years, long enough to reach into local families, and one of the families they reached into is the commander's own. Evelyn Hawthorne takes the assignment partly because it lets her go home and see her relatives. By the time she arrives her mother is dead and her sister has been taken, and both of those go back to the case she was sent to open. She works it from the leads in front of her. Each one carries further than the last, and what sits behind the swindle turns out to be a network that runs past the county and through people who knew her family.