The Wrack Line

In the crumbling Commonwealth of Aldermar, the post-war settlement has curdled into a quiet plague of forgotten veterans and bureaucratic poison. When Silas Kemp, a former scout broken by a clandestine military drug program, burns down a Veterans' Reclamation Authority clinic, he flees with Nessa Holt, a low-level agency clerk who has stolen the scandal's paper trail. Pursued across the desolate western flats by Reclamation Agents and private military contractors, their forced alliance becomes a feverish journey through rust-belt ghost towns and alkaline dust. As the toxins in Silas's blood begin to warp his perception, old betrayals and fresh paranoia ignite a spiral of mutual destruction, proving that some poisons are designed to outlast their carriers.