The Gilded Abattoir

In the fog-draped city of Thornwick, Valdris Republic, philanthropist Sebastian Marwood is worshipped for his shelters that reclaim lost children. Yet beneath the charity galas, Marwood runs a private hunting ground where human prey is butchered for sport. When seventeen-year-old Taryn, fleeing a gang execution, vaults the estate wall, he witnesses a moonlit killing and escapes with a fragment of a hunter's mask. His flight drags him into the orbit of forensic pathologist Dr. Ione Calder, whose scalpel never wavers. As Ione excavates ritualistic wounds from nameless bones, every incision strips warmth from Marwood's fabrications, proving that the dead are the only witnesses who cannot lie.