Beneath the Scalpel

When a homeless teenager is gunned down in a convenience store parking lot, the police rule it a justifiable shooting by an armed citizen. But forensic pathologist Dr. Eleanor Vance finds wounds that tell a far darker story. Together with a dogged journalist haunted by cold cases, she follows a trail of scars, fibers, and silenced runaways that leads to a revered philanthropist's sprawling estate. There, behind a mask of charity, lies a private hunting ground for the forgotten. As the dead speak through the autopsy table, the scalpel cuts through a conspiracy of power, privilege, and predation, revealing that the only thing colder than a lie is the truth carved from bone.