The Glass Lake

In the war-scarred Yulrath Valley, the arrest of a Sevian Guard militant reignites a brutal ethnic conflict. Drifting through the refugee camps is Darien Voss, a predator who doesn’t kill with a gun, but with a whisper. He seduces displaced women not for passion, but for the absolute control of watching them take their own lives at his command. Soren Aldric, a disgraced former counter-intelligence officer who lost everything to the valley’s rot, stumbles upon the pattern the corrupt Yulrath Constabulary ignores. He sees the truth: the world is a sewer. Rather than seek justice from broken institutions, Soren crafts a meticulous trap, posing as the perfect broken soul to lure Darien into a private duel. The prize is not salvation for the world, but the preservation of one small, defiant, and impeccably clean space within it.