The Purity Clause

In a fractured nation where a bifurcated bankruptcy court shields the corrupt, disgraced trustee Elias Vane uncovers a string of suicides tied to Julian Thorne, a master of psychological predation. Thorne treats human souls as insolvent assets, pushing victims to erase themselves for his pleasure. Drawn into a shadow war of manipulation and legal decay, Vane discovers that in a world rotten to the core, true heroism isn’t cleaning the whole system—it’s preserving just one small, spotless clause of the self.