The Liran Barrier

They tell the wounded the Sula Order is salvation. They lie.

Pela works the shadow-shift at Mola Hospital, a decaying, blood-soaked sanctuary parked right on the continental borderline. Her trade is the Rua—a vile, outlawed magic that plucks the unvarnished truth directly from the living marrow of mutilated soldiers. It is a one-way ticket to an execution post if Warden Bato catches her. But when opposing infantrymen start arriving with internal rot that feels meticulously engineered to strip the spirit while leaving the flesh, Pela realizes the neutral hospital is not just treating the war. It is mutating it.

Trapped in a locked-room nightmare where carrying a blade means immediate death and the surgeons smell of faint lye, Pela must weaponize her illicit craft to pry confessions from the dying. She has to out-maneuver the brutal wardens, decode the contagion, and decide what a manufactured peace is truly worth—before the rot crawls into her own bones. In a sanctuary built on compulsory healing, uncovering the disease is treason.