The Honest Incision

In the fog-draped port city of New Dalesworth, renowned philanthropist Edmund Vane runs the Sunlit Haven Foundation, a global symbol of compassion. But behind the gilded charity galas and pristine donor lists lies a brutal hunting ground in the misty northern woods, where the powerful pay to prey on human strays. When seventeen-year-old Leo Cross, a runaway with nothing left to lose, stumbles into this forbidden forest to escape a street gang, he accidentally triggers a deadly lockdown. As the local morgue receives a series of mangled bodies disguised as accident victims, Dr. Elias Cutter, a pathologist with a haunted past, begins to listen to the silent confessions under his scalpel. Death is the only honest witness—stripping away all the warmth of lies, peeling back the polished skin of a monster wearing a public halo.