The Unmasking

In the fictional city of New Havenport, Ameriga, a civil lawsuit becomes the scalpel that dissects a festering wound. Years after a brutal hazing at a prestigious academy's masquerade ball, the tormented victim, now a relentless lawyer, returns to confront his former bullies—now pillars of society. This legal thriller, in the tradition of Emile Zola, exposes the rot of class privilege and corrupted justice, where every hearing is a biopsy of a diseased era.