The Bone-Stitcher's Ledger

In Oakhaven, the sun is a memory, and your shadow is a currency.

The wealthy High-Born buy "extra years" by harvesting the vibrant shadows of the poor, leaving the "Shadowless" to waste away in the fog. Elara is a Bone-Stitcher-a surgeon of the ethereal tasked with the grisly job of sewing stolen life onto dying aristocrats.

But when Elara is forced to stitch a shadow that feels like broken glass and whispers in ancient tongues, she realizes the city's elite are hiding a rotting secret. The shadows aren't just fuel; they are a bridge for something much darker trying to climb back into the world.

With a silver needle in her hand and a black-ink curse spreading through her veins, Elara must decide: continue the harvest, or rip the city's foundations apart.

"The rich don't just own the streets; they own your soul. Until I un-stitch them."