The Carrion Meridian

The plague killed five billion people. Someone found the cure. Someone else is making sure no one finds out.In New Cascadia — a city of 340,000 survivors sealed under a polymer dome where the old world's rules died with most of its people — Detective Mara Voss is called to a body in a maintenance corridor. The victim is a GCA scientist. The cause of death is a single, professional shot. But what stops Mara cold isn't the wound.It's the skin. Clear. Unmarked. The plague that was supposed to be incurable had been cured — and then its host was executed.Now Mara has forty-eight hours before the Global Containment Authority buries the case, the evidence, and the truth. With a young partner at her back and an off-the-books fixer in the city's flooded underworld, she follows a thread that leads somewhere she wasn't prepared for: to a cure that exists, that works, and that someone with power and reach has chosen to suppress while millions continue to die.The Carrion Meridian is a post-plague noir thriller set inside a world that has already ended — where the real crime isn't the body on the floor, but everything that was done to put it there.

📖 57 pages