The Windfall Dig

In the fog-choked moors of the Kingdom of Albion, a retired dual-status military clerk and amateur archaeologist uncovers a Roman-era mass grave, only to watch his entire excavation team perish one by one. As a Dickensian fog of legal chicanery, hidden identities, and bureaucratic cruelty thickens, the survivors must confront a truth more terrifying than any ancient curse: the line between a pensioner and a soldier, between victim and executioner, was drawn in blood by the very laws they trusted.