Beneath the streets of Brackton, ghouls endure a cycle older than memory. Feral and mindless when few, they hunt without mercy — but as their numbers grow, so does their intelligence, until they become beings of staggering empathy crushed by the full weight of what they have done. Every generation tries to break free. Every generation fails. When a newly turned ghoul named Corra races to build something that might survive the next descent into madness, the colony faces its oldest question: can mercy be engineered to outlast the monster?
