Covenants of Dust and Gold

In the decaying industrial town of Grainsburg, Elara Vance serves as a devout archivist for the Covenant Foundation, a megachurch empire. After uncovering a procedural loophole that masks a massive financial fraud, her faith curdles into a deadly obsession. Styled after Emma Donoghue's claustrophobic tension and morally complex protagonists, this story explores how money becomes both the truest creed and the cheapest epitaph. Elara must cleanse the temple of its false prophets, exploiting the very legal technicalities that once protected them.