GODVEIN - the First Taste: A Scarlight Echo Fantasy Series of Opioid Crisis, Big Pharma, and Drug That Steals Your Voice: 1

In New Corinth, they count your halos.Every hit of ECHO fractures your eyes. The number never goes down. The Red strain is worse - it takes your voice. Above 40 decibels, you go silent. Permanently.Maya T. Chen was a jazz singer. Now she can only whisper. Halo count: 12. Days clean: 0.Dr. Audra Voss didn't create ECHO. She bought it. In 2014, she acquired a failing pharma company called Aesculapian that had 8 people locked in a basement at Sisters of Mercy General Hospital, living on a drug with no medical records. She told herself she was saving them.She never drove four hours to Kentucky to meet them.Twelve years later, 940 people line up at 1 a.m. on Corliss Avenue for her attempt to make it right - LUMEN, a regulated, traceable, clean version of the street drug. Half the city thinks she's a savior. The other half thinks she's laundering guilt.GODVEIN is not about how people get addicted. It's about what we owe the people we didn't look at.Told in stark case files - NAME, STRAIN, HALO COUNT - and set in a city that has become a supply chain, this is a devastating, deeply researched novel about harm reduction, corporate sin, and the most expensive word in New Corinth: Free.For fans of Demon Copperhead, Station Eleven, and The Overstory - and for anyone who has ever wondered who actually owns an epidemic.At 92,000 words, GODVEIN is a complete, standalone literary thriller that will stay with you long after the last page. The live dose scene alone has stopped readers cold."Yes. Tonight. Right now. Out of your hand. And I would know every single name."