The Porcelain Confession

In Vellmouth, a city where every citizen wears an unbreakable porcelain mask to bury the shame of a plague no one speaks of, disgraced mask-carver-turned-detective Cassian Thorne is the only man who can read a lie in the sliver of a stranger's eyes. When a killer starts leaving victims' bare faces turned up to the sky, painted with the mark of a decade-old cover-up, Cassian is dragged toward the one mask he swore he'd never look for again — his vanished brother's.