MAXWELL DIVALAX: The Cost of Control

I’ve spent most of my life living by one rule.

Control everything. Control the mission. Control the battlefield.
Control the chaos that tries to destroy the people you love.

Fourteen years ago, that control was taken from me. Operation Silent Verdict was supposed to be a clean mission—locate the target, eliminate the threat, and bring my team home alive. Instead, it became the shadow that followed me long after the war ended. Civilians died that day, and the truth about what really happened was buried under silence, rank, and a chain of command that protected its own.

I moved on the only way I knew how. I built something new. A life in Timber Falls.
A company that became one of the most powerful security firms in the country.
And a woman who changed everything.

Captain Wynter Divalax is my wife, my partner, the mother of my children, and the only person who truly understands the kind of battles soldiers carry long after the guns fall silent. Together, we forged a future stronger than the ghosts of our past.

But ghosts have a way of coming back. When the man responsible for Operation Silent Verdict resurfaces, he brings fourteen years of lies with him. Lies meant to destroy my reputation. Lies meant to tear apart everything I’ve built. And if that wasn’t enough, he makes one critical mistake.

He threatens my family.

General Alistar Voss believes he can manipulate the past and rewrite history. He believes he can break the man he once tried to bury. He’s wrong. Because this time I’m not fighting alone.

My allies are some of the most dangerous people a man could have standing beside him—men who know exactly what happens when someone crosses the wrong line. With my team, my friends, and my wife at my side, the truth behind Operation Silent Verdict will finally come to light.

But the deeper we dig, the clearer it becomes that Voss is only part of the story.

There are names he hasn’t revealed.
Secrets are buried far higher up the chain of command.
And people who will do anything to make sure the truth never sees daylight.

They think this ends with me. They think they can control the narrative.

But they’ve forgotten one thing. I spent my entire life mastering chaos.

And when someone threatens what belongs to me, I don’t run from the fight.

I finish it.

My name is Colonel Maxwell Scott Divalax.

And this time… the truth is coming with me.

The Control Series
Six books. THREE powerful men.
One uncompromising rule — we protect what’s ours. Our women.

This world is intense. Raw. Unfiltered.
Every book carries a warning. Read it.
Because once you step inside this series… there’s no turning back.