Altar of Greed

In the Federated States of Mercia, society worships the gilded image of success. When journalist Isobel Taylor attempts to expose the Global Samaritan Covenant—a mega-charity helmed by the revered Bishop Aldric Vane—she is destroyed by an AI-generated deepfake scandal. Detective Inspector Maura Blackwood, a hardened investigator with a disdain for hypocrisy, connects Taylor’s ruin to a vast religious money-laundering network. The case drags Blackwood into a moral abyss where the public’s idolatry of charitable success has been weaponized to sanitize billions in narco-dollars. As the line between saint and sinner blurs, the pursuit of justice becomes a fight against a society that has traded integrity for the comforting illusion of a holy profit.