
Book 1
What We Owe the Dead1 chapterFree
When a mysterious illness tears through the capital, Hope Calloway's carefully orchestrated villa retreat with her friends becomes a fortress—and a moral minefield. A stranger named Bayu arrives with impossible skills and dangerous secrets, just as infected horrors multiply beyond their gates. As Hope struggles to keep her group alive and together, she must decide what she owes the dead, the dying, and the man who may be both.