The Stain of Silence

In the coastal republic of Vespasia, a visa scam that sold desperate laborers fake permits for the island nation of Selenia left dozens stranded and broken. Years later, a clandestine movement calling itself “The Unblemished” declares war on moral decay, executing not just criminals but anyone they deem statistically likely to offend. For ex-detective Caelan Dray, who lost his brother to the scam, a search for a missing whistleblower becomes a descent into a horror where the postman, the teacher, and the loving father next door are judged by a merciless algorithm. The terror is not the executioner’s blade, but the revelation that safety was never a right—only a fragile illusion held together by the unspoken sins of a community.