Requiem for the Vain

In the rain-slicked city of Northbridge, a landmark privacy lawsuit against a car dealership exposes a vast, stolen biometric database. When a serial killer known as The Collector begins staging murders based on iconic literary crimes, former con artist Elena Cruz—living under a new identity—discovers that survival strips away all pretense of virtue. As she navigates a city turned into a deadly manuscript, she must betray every principle she once faked to stay alive, revealing that in the face of death, moral superiority is the most laughable luxury.