The Kessler Bloodline

In the wake of a catastrophic financial collapse that shatters the legal order of the fictional nation of Valdoria, the powerful Kessler family finds that its true legacy is not the mining empire it controls, but a genetic inheritance of violence. As social structures disintegrate overnight, young Elara Kessler discovers her own dormant capacity for brutality awakening, while her uncle Elias harnesses generations of corporate ruthlessness to impose the first iron-fisted rule over the chaos. A Peter Høeg-inspired exploration of evil as a hereditary disease, tracing how the sins of a family's past become the blueprint for a new dark age.