The Gilded Abyss

In the rain-soaked industrial city of Grimford, a legal aid clerk named Evan Cross watches his disabled father die waiting for benefits. Desperate to escape poverty, he discovers a hidden path into the upper world by manipulating the very system that failed his family. As he forges medical evidence and brokers fraudulent claims, he climbs into the city’s elite legal circles. But when a tenacious investigator and a journalist begin pulling at the threads, Evan’s empire of lies threatens to collapse—and the ultimate price must be paid at the peak of his ambition.