God's Abandoned Shadows

In the coastal town of Marrowgate, Northland, the Midwinter Carnival is a cherished tradition of masks and merriment. But when federal investigator Elara Voss is assigned to a peculiar medical malpractice claim against St. Dymphna's Federal Hospital, she uncovers a horrifying pattern: every year, after the carnival, a patient dies under the guise of surgical complications. As the next festival approaches, Voss discovers that the entire community participates in an ancient collective ritual—an awakening of the demonic under the cloak of revelry. Each criminal profile she constructs feels like an attempt to trace the shadows God left behind in the human soul, and the line between justice and complicity begins to dissolve.