The Cost of the Record
Burden of Command, Book 3
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The Cost of the Record
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Narrated by:
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Jared Williams
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By:
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Kaelen Voss
A man dies during the second winter.
The record says it was an accident.
Four sentences. Clean. Final.
But three years later, the truth refuses to stay contained.
When a labor leader asks for the record to be completed—not changed, not erased—an archivist is forced into a role she never intended to take on. As new accounts surface and old decisions are reexamined, the line between accuracy and truth begins to fracture.
A daughter brings her own version.
A messenger brings rumors from outside.
A community remembers what was never written down.
And buried beneath it all is a choice no one ever recorded.
To finish the record, she must confront a question with no safe answer:
Is a record honest if it leaves out what matters most?
The Cost of the Record is a quiet, character-driven literary thriller about responsibility, memory, and the consequences of deciding what becomes history.
©2026 Kaelen Voss (P)2026 Kaelen Voss