In the wreckage of Toad Hall, Detective Brannigan digs through the ashes of a city that’s learned to burn its dead twice—first with fire, then with silence. What she finds buried beneath the floorboards isn’t evidence; it’s a voice from the grave, a father’s final confession that sets her on a trail no badge could sanction. As the old systems collapse, Brannigan follows ghosts through forgotten archives and cursed forests, chasing whispers of survival and the faint, dangerous possibility of redemption.