The Inquisitor's Shadow

The Synod loves a redemption tale. So when former war hero Auren Vale joins the Inquisition, pamphlets hail him as mercy in uniform. His mentor, a charming monster named Callan Dureth, promises to teach him how justice is done.

But confessions start to smell like theater. Files whisper old names. And a single case, buried, sealed, and bound in blue wax, reaches through the years to pull the floor from under him.

On city roofs and in candlelit cells, Auren must decide which is the greater heresy: to break the law he serves, or obey it until it breaks him.

A psychological thriller of purity and rot, The Inquisitor's Shadow stalks a man who tries to clean the system from inside, and finds the stain runs both ways.