The Harrow of Ashenvale

In the remote and decaying hamlet of Ashenvale, a federal immigration adjudicator is found dead in the snow after reopening a long-dormant deportation case against the village's patriarch. As weary federal magistrate Elara Vance investigates, she uncovers a web of buried childhood traumas, a village's pact of silence, and a brutal logic that governs the edge of civilization—where a clandestine "forest court" executes outsiders to protect their own. A story inspired by the administrative cruelty of Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, transplanted into the merciless isolation of the American frontier.