The Gilded Prison

In the steel-choked town of Blacksburg, Valoria, union organizer Clara Hardinge marries into the Blackwell coke dynasty to escape poverty, only to find herself chemically stripped of civil capacity. As a perfect drug erodes her will, she must navigate a gilded cage where class betrayal and medical conspiracy converge, discovering that the leap to the upper class demanded her soul as collateral—and the interest is a life erased.