The Audit
A forensic accountant is brought in to review a company’s books after a sudden restructuring. The numbers tell a story the directors have not yet noticed she has read.
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About the Author
M. Cross writes about professional betrayal, institutional deception, and the infrastructure of the long lie. Her fiction is populated by accountants, lawyers, analysts, and executive assistants who notice more than they are supposed to.
She worked in financial services for eleven years. She has published under several names. M. Cross is the most recent.
M. Cross
Areas of Expertise
☠ Professional Betrayal
The long premeditated pivot. The colleague who was always filing a parallel report.
📄 Institutional Deception
The deception that is structural rather than personal, systemic rather than emotional, and therefore harder to name.
📈 Financial Services
Eleven years inside the engine. The compliance frameworks, the paper trails, the exits that aren’t exits.
🔍 The Long Con
Plots that unfold across years, not chapters. Patience as the primary weapon.
Published Stories
Five stories published on Portal Avalon under the M. Cross byline.