Gilded Ruin

In the rain-slicked streets of Westport, Adrian Cross claws his way from a crumbling tenement to the glittering penthouses of high finance. But every rung he climbs is bought with betrayal, fraud, and blood. When a forgotten procedural deadline threatens to unravel the empire he built on lies, a Supreme Court ruling becomes the final arbiter of his fate—triggering a reckoning where justice is not about guilt, but about the remorseless machinery of the law.