The Crimson Presumption

In the fog-choked port of Blackwater Haven, an ancient purity edict governs bloodlines to keep cosmic horrors dormant. Prosecutor Edwin Marsh by day defends the law that deems every child born in wedlock inviolable; by night, he hunts betrayers of love, leaving cryptic sonnets on their corpses. When a court order for a forbidden blood-test threatens to expose his own monstrous lineage and the sanguinary lie of his first love, Marsh discovers his ritual killings are not vengeance but an inescapable liturgy dictated by eldritch heredity.