On a night ripped apart by a vicious storm, real estate mogul Arthur Andrews is brutally murdered inside his high-security mansion on Blackwood Lane. The killer leaves no forensic trace—only a grotesque, theatrical calling card: the victim's collarbone has been surgically replaced with a pristine, white thermocol replica.For Detective Calus Biggs, a weary veteran fighting his own ghosts, the investigation quickly spirals into a calculated game of psychological warfare. The killer calls him on an encrypted line with a terrifying ultimatum: The board stands at zero-zero. You have seventy-two hours before the next installment is collected.When a second prominent figure is butchered with the exact same signature, the clock hits zero, and the killer takes a 1–0 lead.Unearthing a horrifying, twenty-five-year-old conspiracy, Calus discovers a historic land grab that framed and slaughtered an innocent family. Now, a lone survivor has regained his memory and returned to balance the ledger in blood.To force Calus into the final phase of the game, the killer takes the ultimate target: Calus’s nine-year-old son.To save his boy, Calus must break every rule, step into the decaying ruins of an abandoned asylum, and face a deadly reckoning where the price of justice is entirely personal.

The ledger is waiting. Will you play the game?