Grace of Ashes

In a crumbling industrial town of Rusthaven, a charismatic cult leader preaches that "the Cleansing" will purify the faithful through a mass cyanide ritual. Undercover federal agent Elias Voss has spent eighteen months embedded as a doubting convert. As the appointed day arrives, he discovers that the leader's prophecies are built on a web of financial fraud and blackmail—but revealing the truth too soon will doom the very people he tries to save. When every word is a weapon and every silence a betrayal, Elias must choose between exposing the lie and letting the faithful walk into the fire with their delusion intact.