Ash and Bone

In the scorched aftermath of the Blackwood Timber fire, a claim dispute erupts between the corporation and Apex Casualty, masking a deeper rot. A phantom predator known as "Matchstick" uses the Whisper dating app to incinerate victims tied to the lost fortune. Port Verdant Police Detective Lena Voss, a cybersecurity expert, tracks the digital embers, only to discover the profile of the monster mirrors the face sleeping next to her every night—her husband, an insurance adjuster. The truth forces Lena to admit that the intimacy of marriage is the ultimate blind spot, and the stranger in her bed is more inscrutable than any cyber ghost.