The Surrogate's Wound

In the fictional Euro-American nation of Veridia, impoverished women are lured to billionaire Alistair Croft's private island of Amaranth under the guise of elite surrogacy, only to become exploited as reproductive machines. A covered-up death shatters the survivors, leaving each with an unhealable fissure in their soul. Years later, Valerie Crane files a personal injury lawsuit against the Silverstone Race Course Casino—a laundering front—to finally expose the atrocity. Told with the cold, psychological precision of Hideo Yokoyama's style, this is a story of fractured spirits seeking impossible redemption in a system built on their silence.