The Hollow Foundation

In the fog-draped port city of Northaven, real estate titan Viktor Clausen returns after twenty years with a gleaming waterfront development plan. But beneath the luxury penthouses lies a buried crime: a family burned alive during a violent eviction. Ellis Kovach, a disabled former architect fighting a Kafkaesque denial of his disability benefits, discovers the fire was no accident. As he teams up with a retired detective, he peels back layers of institutional corruption, forged medical records, and the terrifying truth that the lives we build are merely a fragile balance waiting to shatter.