The Gilded Dose

A destitute caregiver marries into the pharmaceutical aristocracy of Veridia, only to find that her newfound status is a chemically enforced conservatorship. As the perfect drug strips her of civil capacity, she must navigate a labyrinth of medical fraud and legal entrapment, discovering that the cost of climbing the social ladder is the gradual forfeiture of her very soul—and the interest on that debt is steep and unrelenting.