Broken Ground

In the rust-belt city of Millbrook, a retired social security disability claimant's routine appeal intersects with a decades-old murder tied to a brutal eviction. When real estate magnate Julian Cross returns to redevelop the waterfront, the forgotten death of a tenant resurface—forcing a weary lawyer, a haunted cop, and a reluctant witness to confront that what passes for "normal life" is only a fragile equilibrium over buried violence.