Blood Contract

In the rust-belt city of Ironhaven, a factory nurse named Nora Voss stumbles upon a sealed FDA audit report that links the city's largest medical implant manufacturer—and its mayor—to a decade of suppressed device failures and preventable deaths. When her whistleblower complaint is buried and her brother, a junior clerk at the courthouse, turns up dead, Nora realizes the entire machinery of law, police, and press is hunting her. She must outrun the system she once trusted, using only the brittle evidence and her own fading conscience to strike a deal that might save her—or damn everyone else.