The Kindness Ledger

di , VoidAndVelvet (Autore)

VoidAndVelvet, 2026

"I was sent to arrest him. I stayed to keep him alive." Corvin Ash has spent twenty years serving the Order with cold precision. In a plague-ravaged city ruled by quarantine law and Crown fear, he knows what mercy costs. He knows what happens to people who question the ledger, the warrants, the official names of the condemned. So when he is assigned to observe and detain Theron, a quiet healer accused of treating the corrupted, Corvin expects a simple arrest. Instead, he finds a clinic that never closes, a healer who turns no one away, and patients recovering faster than the Crown's own charts say they should. Theron should be a minor lawbreaker. He should be easy to classify, easy to report, easy to remove. But every night Corvin watches from across the street, the case becomes less certain. A second cup appears in the window. Off-book enforcers arrive without a case number. Patients recorded as dead are still alive in Vael Cross. And somewhere inside the Crown's medical offices, someone has realized that Theron is not merely breaking the law. He may be the one thing the plague was never supposed to survive. As Corvin's ledger fills with evidence, omissions, and the first fragile signs of devotion, he is forced to choose between the institution that made him and the man whose kindness has become dangerous enough to threaten a kingdom. In a city built on deciding who deserves to live, what does it cost one man to finally stop deciding?

• Autore: , VoidAndVelvet
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: VoidAndVelvet
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235710474