Serpent in Silk

In the industrial city of Ironhaven, where assembly-line smoke chokes the sky and men rule the factory floor, Elara Voss—a quiet, prayerful immigrant widow—bides her time. When her foreman, Aldric Kane, humiliates her and blocks her every request for a simple break, she does not scream. She smiles. But behind that smile brews a poison distilled from jealousy—not of power, but of the cruel indifference he shows to her soul. This is a story of how envy, sharpened by years of silent degradation, turns a gentle hand into an instrument of exquisite death. No one sees it coming, because no one ever looks at the help.