Algorithms of Ash and Bone

In the elite corridors of Athelstan Academy, the suspicious death of a student collides with a disgraced detective's last chance at redemption. DI Cormac 'Mac' Reilly, haunted by the landmark 'Brownfield v. Dunn' ruling that freed a guilty man, follows a digital trail from a privileged school to a sprawling trafficking network stretching from a failing state to the neon-lit port of Lockport. As an AI-generated ghost in the machine exposes the school's darkest secret—a 'human supply chain' feeder program—Reilly must navigate privileged silence and algorithmic opacity. This is a world where campus hierarchies mirror the brutality of organized crime, and rebellion is a girl from the Global South who refused to become a statistic, rewriting her fate through sheer will and a viral video.