The Ink That Bled

In the rain-slicked streets of Havenport, a fictional commonwealth in the North Atlantic, crime novelist Iris Blackwood completes her final masterpiece: a chilling tale of a man feigning disability to commit a perfect murder. But when the protagonist, Dorian Thorne, materializes at her book signing, Iris is dragged into a labyrinth where her own words have sculpted a living monster. Haunted by a buried sin of literary theft that drove her only friend to death, Iris must confront the flesh-and-blood embodiment of her guilt, unspooling a metafictional nightmare where ink and reality bleed together, and salvation demands the destruction of everything she has built.