The Gilded Tail of Madness

When philosopher Elias Voss exposes the predatory land schemes of Meridian County's elite, his ruthless half-brother and a corrupt sheriff conspire to bury him alive in Blackwood Asylum. Diagnosed with a fabricated psychosis, Elias endures searing electroshock and numbing drugs designed to erase his identity. His only hope is Dr. Lillian Harcourt, a forensic psychiatrist haunted by the asylum's trail of "conveniently insane" patients. As Elias fights to prove his sanity through intricate logic puzzles and celestial ciphers, he uncovers a conspiracy where greed functions as an evolutionary appendage—a vestigial tail that whispers betrayal, turning healers into executioners and kin into parasites.