Every Camera Faces West

Six cameras are keeping Bellwether's mayor in view. Every one of them has been ordered to miss the same road.

Municipal camera supervisor Lena Rusk spots the blind spot before the rally begins. She demands that her objection go into the record. Instead, her name appears on an approval she never gave—and a remote command is waiting to erase the local evidence. Lena disconnects the workstation. Now she has a record someone wants gone, and a reason to wonder who is giving the orders.

Then gunfire erupts at the rally. A marshal is bleeding beneath her hands, workers are scattered and frightened, and the record points back to her.

The equipment is being collected. Access is closing. The official version is taking shape. Lena's small crew could help prove what happened, but their livelihoods give them reasons to keep quiet. A trainee is trying to hold on to an agency job. A union colleague fears what the city could do to her family. And a paid crowd marshal carrying a folded protest sign knows more about the service road than she is ready to reveal.

Lena wants her name cleared. She also wants to save the marriage she is still trying to rebuild. Following the evidence pulls both lives into the same fight—and brings her to a truth that could put vulnerable people in danger if she exposes it carelessly.

Someone has arranged what Bellwether is allowed to see. To show the city what happened in its blind spot, Lena must decide how much she can reveal, whose safety she can protect, and what she is willing to lose.