The Alms of Ruin

In the rain-slicked streets of the fictional Republic of Meridia, devout lay worker Edmund Parrish believes he is saving souls by securing disability stipends for the faithful through the Eternal Grace Ministry. When he stumbles upon doctored ledgers linking the Church to a vast welfare fraud orchestrated with state officials, his faith shatters. What follows is a harrowing, Keneally-esque moral reckoning: a calculated purge of the corrupt clergy who turned alms into gold, revealing that in this age, money is the truest creed and the cheapest epitaph.