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A dead surveyor. A “useless” class. A road that lies. Alden Vey died holding a line in the mud, trying to save three teamsters from a map that should have known better. Then he wakes in a cold body, in a colder building, with a system message calling his class Rank Zero and a sign over his head reading: EMBERGLASS RELAY STATION. Sanctuary, Signal, Stable, and Crown Road Registry. Someone has carved below it: closed, probably haunted. The station is forgotten. The roads around it are unstable. The empire that built Emberglass decided silence was cheaper than maintenance.

Mercy made her a martyr. Death will make her a queen. When the inquisition condemns Ysabel as a heretic, the prince of death claims her as his own. Melkart drags her from the pyre into a realm where souls arrive broken stripped of memory and faith. His realm is unraveling. He believes Ysabel is the cause and the cure. Cursed with a power that summons fire—and follows death—Ysabel is pulled between the mortal world that hunts her and the underworld that would claim her. At the center of it stands the man who calls her his salvation. She should fear him. Instead, she’s drawn to him.

In a world where death can be undone for one deserving soul, nine grieving individuals are brought together by the government’s controversial reanimation program, Project Equilibrium. The program gives them the power to resurrect one of nine victims taken by the same killer, Lucas Rehn, using his life force as payment. Over the course of an emotionally charged week, the group must grapple with the unbearable weight of their decision. Each deliberator brings their own pain, guilt, and love to the table.