Embers of Justice

In the decaying industrial city of Verrock, a worn-out assassin named Caelan Morrow accepts one final contract: eliminate Elias Thorne, a crusading attorney who has won a landmark preliminary injunction against the state’s predatory driver’s license suspension system. But when Caelan stalks his target, he instead finds Thorne’s orphaned daughter—a sharp-eyed girl named Mira who carries her father’s legal files and his fatal wound. Bound by a ghost of conscience, Caelan abandons the hit and flees with Mira, only to discover that the system he serves—the Verrock Bureau of Motor Enforcement—has already classified them both as expendable assets. As the Bureau deploys its own enforcers to silence the case, Caelan realizes that every life he ever took was just a line item in a ledger, and his redemption may be the costliest loss of all.