Tower of Quiet Deals

Mina arrived in the capital with a volunteer file full of missing names and a sealed security card tucked at her hip. She had spent years cross-checking old disappearances, and the same coordinate kept appearing like a bruise under the paper. That made her useful to people with money and dangerous to people with power. When a marriage contract gave her access to locked rooms, Mina used it to keep digging, even as public shame, office games, and one careful man pushed her toward a truth she could not file away.