Elysium Falling (ONC 2024 Long List)

From Prompt #95 "I will become as monstrous as I must."

Rowan Stevescant just wanted to start over.

He'd killed enough. He was done. Until they brought him back. And then he wasn't. In a world where faces change as easily as buying a new set of clothes, nothing is what it seems. In an attempt to leave his old life and start new, he faces an old life that simply won't let him walk away. When his girlfriend is kidnapped to ensure his cooperation Rowan has no choice. He can either take back all that he'd fought for or return to the job and never see Miranda again. But in a world where reality is fragmented at best and the nature of The Watchers is revealed who can you trust?

Inspired by the Altered Carbon Book series: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.