The Ashen Glow

In the aftermath of a class-action wage-theft lawsuit against poultry titan Farland Group, prodigious risk analyst Adrian Voss treats the legal system as a trivial machine. To demonstrate that justice is merely a function of power, he orchestrates the immaculate murder of a key witness, framing it as an industrial accident. His experiment succeeds beyond measure—the case collapses, and he is hailed as a silent savior of the corporation. Yet the logical perfection of his act becomes a lifelong vivisection of his soul, as the faint, unkillable phosphorescence of guilt flickers in the gray corridors of his mind, demanding a reckoning no equation can absolve.