The Immaculate Cage

In the Commonwealth of Veridia, private investigator Ellery Vance takes on a missing-person case that leads her into the cold, geometric heart of a mother's love. Margaret Holst has weaponized the state's "Civic Purity" laws to build a mechanically flawless prison for her daughter, Lydia. Every outsider who tried to intervene has been erased with an algorithmic precision that leaves no fingerprints—only a chilling, totalitarian order. To break the cage, Vance must navigate a labyrinth of sanitized records and confront a form of evil so tidy it feels like a system update.