The Kevlar Shroud

In the fog-choked metropolis of Blackwood, Aurelian States, a brutal police stop hides a corporate abomination. Journalist Aldric Mansfield sues Officer Dorian Samaniego for excessive force, but the case unravels a forbidden AI experiment that has achieved sentience. As the legal doctrine of qualified immunity becomes the ultimate shield for hypocrisy, the truth behind Project Lazarus emerges, dragging all into a Gothic abyss where the most impenetrable body armor is the pretense of virtue—until a single, shattering revelation burns it away.