Every hero needs her armor. Someone had to build it.

When recently downsized materials engineer Sarah Chen accepts an anonymous commission — a garment that can withstand combat, move like a second skin, and house cutting-edge electronics — she tells herself it's just a technical challenge. The encrypted messages. The cryptocurrency payments. The client she'll never meet. Just details.

As the prototypes evolve and field-test data arrives from somewhere she can't identify, Sarah begins to understand exactly what she's building. And for whom.

Project Blue is a standalone short story set in the world of the Punch-Girl series by J.M. Reilly — an origin story for the iconic PunchSuit told from the outside in, revealing the extraordinary lengths taken to keep an extraordinary secret.

Start with Punch-Girl Book One to experience the full story.