The Wraith's Docket

In the rain-slicked border town of Veridia, seventeen-year-old Elian Voss stumbles into a live-streamed murder on a hidden corner of the dark web. The victim, an undocumented immigrant held under a questionable federal detainer by local Sheriff Ronan Hassell, was executed by a transnational syndicate known as The Docket. Hunted for what he saw, Elian vanishes into the cracks between jurisdictions, becoming a ghost in a system where law is just a weapon and justice is an unmarked grave. This novel, echoing Jia Pingwa's elegiac realism, maps the desolate wasteland between statute and morality, where countless forgotten souls drift.