Blinded Ascent

In the heart of the French Quarter, Friday is a ghost that refuses to die.

For Cyprian, a brilliant artist trapped in the suffocating rhythm of a recurring loop, every morning begins with the same oily thrum of static and the crushing weight of a debt he didn't create. Forty thousand dollars. One crumbling studio on St. Ann. And a predator in a pinstripe suit who knows exactly how to make a man feel small.

But some frequencies are meant to be shattered.

When a misplaced rage and a chance encou...