Ash Over Zarabad

In the dusty sprawl of Zarabad, Vaylar, a budget airline crash uncovers a mass grave from a forgotten genocide. When the archaeologists exhuming the site start dying in ways that mirror the ancient execution methods, washed-out air-crash investigator Khalid Hassan is dragged into a world where the lines between a fabled curse and a modern, vicious cover-up dissolve. As the body count rises, Hassan and the lead archaeologist Aisha Rey must navigate a landscape of street-level informants, corrupt officials, and buried state secrets to uncover a truth that challenges everything Vaylar believes about its past—and its latest air disaster. The real horror isn't what was dug up, but who is killing to keep it buried.