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MANILA, 2035.
A yawn in the shape of a city.
A girl is found dead in a slum, somewhere she should never have been, and nowhere anyone was supposed to look.
An heir swims against the flow of the entropic decay of his family's empire-that-was.
A construction worker is thrust into the world, and finds that he can't move fast enough to keep up.
A college kid tries to make peace with the death of her friend.
And an NBI agent tries to unravel it all.
They all have their own shit to sort out and answer, question is, will the city allow them?
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Book 1: Ghosts of the Living
Book 2: The Feast of Knives (ongoing)
Content Warning: Death, suicide, sexual content, substance abuse.
Language: Primarily in English, with occasional dialogue in Tagalog and Chinese. Context is always provided, no need to be multilingual to follow what's happening.
Setting: Near-future Manila.
Genre: Political Thriller/Literary Fiction
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