The False Record

In Gallowspire, truth isn’t what happened. It’s what survives the paperwork. Adrian Voss is a licensed cleaner for supernatural crime scenes. His off-book gift lets him taste the last truth a room remembers, but every use burns away one of his own memories. When he breaks protocol on a politically sealed homicide, the residue tells him something impossible: the dead man was framed, the scene was edited before his team arrived, and the official story was already moving through the system before the body finished bleeding. To prove a sanctified lie, Adrian has to work with prosecutor Selene Marr, dodge the institutions that control “legal truth,” and follow a trail of erased evidence through forbidden archives, memory black markets, and the drowned routes of Blackweir. Because in Gallowspire, evidence doesn’t disappear. It gets rerouted. What to expect:- Single-POV urban fantasy mystery- Occult forensics, legal corruption, and hidden supernatural factions- Memory-cost magic and an escalating conspiracy- Mystery-first pacing, not romance-driven