Blood Beneath the Neon

In the rain-slicked streets of Meridian City, the glow of neon billboards masks the rust and blood soaking its industrial underbelly. Elena Vance, a line worker at a massive food-processing conglomerate, seeks justice after a brutal campaign of sexual harassment by her supervisor. But when the gilded machinery of the law fails her—crushing her spirit with cold legalisms and bought testimony—she steps beyond the boundary of civilized restraint. Reborn as a wrathful spirit, she meticulously orchestrates a reckoning, only to find that in the mirror of her final vengeance, the face staring back is no longer human. A literary noir examining the fragile veneer of civilization and the infernal cycle of trauma.