diff --git a/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/src/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui/Components/RevealButton.razor b/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/src/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui/Components/RevealButton.razor
index 378a1c8..e28541d 100644
--- a/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/src/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui/Components/RevealButton.razor
+++ b/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/src/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui/Components/RevealButton.razor
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 @inject ISecretCipher Cipher
 @inject IAuditWriter Audit
 @inject IServiceProvider Services
+@using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
 @* Components/RevealButton.razor — a policy-gated, audited reveal. The plaintext is loaded and
    shown only AFTER the click, straight from the store+cipher (a human reveal shows the CURRENT
    value, distinct from any cached machine resolve). The value never enters an audit field. *@
@@ -47,30 +48,39 @@ else
     /// <summary>The cascading authentication state, used as the fallback source of the audit actor.</summary>
     [CascadingParameter] private Task<AuthenticationState>? AuthState { get; set; }
 
+    // Fail CLOSED on audit (Secrets-015): the plaintext is shown only after its secret.reveal
+    // Success audit has been written. Reveal is the most privileged operation here and the audit is
+    // the only record that a human saw the value; if the sink is down (or made to fail), nothing is
+    // shown and the failure is logged (actor + name, never the value). Unlike add/rotate/delete
+    // (scadaproj#34), nothing has happened yet that a failed audit would misreport — withholding the
+    // value costs only a retry.
     private async Task RevealAsync()
     {
         _busy = true;
+        // Captured now: if the component is disposed mid-reveal, reading _cts.Token later would throw
+        // ObjectDisposedException; a captured token just reports cancellation, which fails closed.
+        CancellationToken ct = _cts.Token;
+        string? plaintext = null;
         AuditOutcome outcome;
+        string? error;
         try
         {
-            StoredSecret? row = await Store.GetAsync(Name, _cts.Token);
+            StoredSecret? row = await Store.GetAsync(Name, ct);
             if (row is null)
             {
-                _value = null;
-                _error = "Secret not found.";
+                error = "Secret not found.";
                 outcome = AuditOutcome.Failure;
             }
             else
             {
-                _value = Cipher.Decrypt(row);
-                _error = null;
+                plaintext = Cipher.Decrypt(row);
+                error = null;
                 outcome = AuditOutcome.Success;
             }
         }
         catch (SecretDecryptionException)
         {
-            _value = null;
-            _error = "Unable to decrypt secret.";
+            error = "Unable to decrypt secret.";
             outcome = AuditOutcome.Failure;
         }
         catch (Exception)
@@ -78,17 +88,12 @@ else
             // Any other unexpected store/cipher fault (e.g. master key unavailable, timeout) must
             // still be audited as a Failure and surfaced to the user, not left to tear down the
             // circuit. The value is never shown.
-            _value = null;
-            _error = "Unable to reveal secret.";
+            error = "Unable to reveal secret.";
             outcome = AuditOutcome.Failure;
         }
-        finally
-        {
-            _busy = false;
-            _revealed = true;
-        }
 
         string actor = await SecretActorResolver.ResolveAsync(Services, AuthState);
+        bool audited;
         try
         {
             await Audit.WriteAsync(
@@ -103,12 +108,30 @@ else
                     Target = Name.Value,
                     DetailsJson = outcome == AuditOutcome.Failure ? "{\"reason\":\"error\"}" : null,
                 },
-                _cts.Token);
+                ct);
+            audited = true;
         }
-        catch
+        catch (Exception ex)
         {
-            // Best-effort audit; never let an audit-write fault surface into the event pipeline.
+            audited = false;
+            Services.GetService<ILogger<RevealButton>>()?.LogWarning(
+                ex,
+                "The secret.reveal audit of {SecretName} by {Actor} could not be written; {Disposition}.",
+                Name.Value,
+                actor,
+                outcome == AuditOutcome.Success ? "the value was NOT shown" : "the reveal had already failed");
         }
+
+        if (outcome == AuditOutcome.Success && !audited)
+        {
+            plaintext = null;
+            error = "Reveal is unavailable: the audit record could not be written.";
+        }
+
+        _value = plaintext;
+        _error = error;
+        _busy = false;
+        _revealed = true;
     }
 
     private void Hide()
diff --git a/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui.Tests/RevealAuditFailureTests.cs b/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui.Tests/RevealAuditFailureTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88f0d43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui.Tests/RevealAuditFailureTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+using Bunit;
+using Bunit.TestDoubles;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Audit;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Abstractions;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui.Components;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui.Tests.Fakes;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Secrets-015: a reveal whose audit write fails must not show the plaintext (fail closed), and the
+/// failure must be logged — actor and name, never the value.
+/// </summary>
+public class RevealAuditFailureTests : TestContext
+{
+    private const string PlainValue = "the-plaintext-value-42";
+
+    private sealed class CapturingLogger<T> : ILogger<T>
+    {
+        public List<(LogLevel Level, string Message)> Entries { get; } = new();
+
+        public IDisposable? BeginScope<TState>(TState state) where TState : notnull => null;
+
+        public bool IsEnabled(LogLevel logLevel) => true;
+
+        public void Log<TState>(LogLevel logLevel, EventId eventId, TState state, Exception? exception,
+            Func<TState, Exception?, string> formatter) => Entries.Add((logLevel, formatter(state, exception)));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void A_reveal_whose_audit_fails_shows_nothing_and_logs_it()
+    {
+        var store = new RecordingSecretStore();
+        var audit = new CapturingAuditWriter { SuccessFault = new InvalidOperationException("audit sink down") };
+        var logger = new CapturingLogger<RevealButton>();
+        Services.AddSingleton<ISecretStore>(store);
+        Services.AddSingleton<IAuditWriter>(audit);
+        Services.AddSingleton<ISecretCipher>(new FakeCipher());
+        Services.AddSingleton<ILogger<RevealButton>>(logger);
+        var auth = this.AddTestAuthorization();
+        auth.SetAuthorized("mallory");
+        auth.SetPolicies(SecretsAuthorization.RevealPolicy);
+
+        var name = new SecretName("prod/db");
+        store.Seed(new FakeCipher().Encrypt(name, PlainValue, SecretContentType.Text) with
+        {
+            Revision = 1,
+            CreatedUtc = DateTimeOffset.UnixEpoch,
+            UpdatedUtc = DateTimeOffset.UnixEpoch,
+        });
+
+        var cut = RenderComponent<RevealButton>(p => p.Add(c => c.Name, name));
+        cut.Find("button.reveal-secret").Click();
+
+        Assert.DoesNotContain(PlainValue, cut.Markup);
+        Assert.Empty(cut.FindAll("[data-testid=revealed-value]"));
+        Assert.Contains("audit", cut.Find("[data-testid=reveal-error]").TextContent);
+
+        (LogLevel level, string message) = Assert.Single(logger.Entries);
+        Assert.Equal(LogLevel.Warning, level);
+        Assert.Contains("prod/db", message);
+        Assert.Contains("mallory", message);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain(PlainValue, message);
+    }
+}