The Gilded Blood

Once, lords hunted peasants for sport; now, the scions of industry hunt the forgotten through actuarial tables and judicial decrees. When ex-special forces operator Jack Thorn rescues a homeless man from a pack of masked aristocrats, he is marked as the ultimate prey for the Velvet Circle, a clandestine lodge that has bent morality to its will for centuries. Thorn discovers that his own unit’s pension fund—and the deaths of his brothers-in-arms—are tangled in the Circle’s web of fiduciary fraud. Betrayed, brutalized, and forced underground, he must become a ghost to dismantle the conspiracy, questioning whether vengeance is a sin or the only justice left.