God's Lost Shadows

In the decaying port city of Portumbra, retired FBI profiler Adrian Cross is summoned to investigate a massacre aboard the luxury cruise ship Silver Muse during the Festival of Forgotten Masks. What begins as a locked-room mystery unravels into a chilling portrait of collective madness: a crew driven to ritualistic violence against their corporate oppressors. As Cross constructs a criminal profile for each masked participant, he realizes he is not merely hunting killers—he is tracing the shadows God left behind when He abandoned this city. Each chapter peels back the skin of a different soul, revealing how the carnival awakened a dormant, demonic unity. For Cross, the case becomes a mirror, forcing him to confront his own buried darkness and choose whether to finally rewrite the trajectory of his ruined life.