The Ash-Ward

A plague province where the cure rots the host faster than the sickness, and everyone knows it. Toliman, a lock- and gatekeeper who knows every untracked route through the quarantine zones, has found one uninfected sanctuary beneath the city. But when the secret to keeping that sanctuary pure threatens to unravel, Toliman must decide what he will trade to keep the rot away, and who he will feed to the healers to do it. The price of survival is physical, the politics are corrupt, and the final reckoning demands blood.