Ash in the Fog

In a gaslit Victorian city where fog swallows truth, death rarely follows reason. Alistair Blackwood is a young police officer with an unnatural way of seeing the world. When he studies a crime scene, his mind forms precise three-dimensional structures bones beneath skin, force behind motion, angles invisible to others. It does not give him answers. It only shows how death could exist. Recruited into a covert police task force investigating unnatural deaths, Alistair finds himself drawn into cases that defy logic and law alike. As each mystery unfolds, fragments of his past begin to surface, tied to the unresolved and suspicious deaths of his parents an incident long dismissed and never truly explained. With no clear origin for his ability and truths buried deeper than the bodies he studies, Alistair must decide how far he is willing to look. Because in a city built on silence, some mysteries are not meant to be solved and some gifts are not meant to be understood.