Blood Debt

In the fictional state of Cedar Creek, deaf-mute inmate Elias Cole is beaten to death in county jail. Three years after his execution, the true killer confesses. Prosecutor Marshall Hayward, who built the case on a coerced confession, is not shattered by guilt—he is claimed by it. He begins a quiet, methodical dismantling of the very system that made him a hero, only to find that the dead do not demand revenge; they demand remembrance. And remembrance, once kindled, burns all escape routes shut.