A Noose Called Kindness

In the industrial decay of Ironhearth, Cascadia, welder Caleb Stone is crushed to death in a Pendleton Heavy Fabrication pipe collapse. His ghost awakens inside the official incident report, vowing a spectral revenge on the executives who buried the truth. But as he manufactures haunting after haunting, he discovers that the escalating public sympathy is not his weapon but his cage. The story peels back layer after layer to reveal that his true murderer is not corporate greed, but the suffocating pity of strangers—including the one holding this book.