The cooling fault woke Rafa at 2:14 in the morning - the only honest hour in that building.
Rafael works the night shift at the Vantage tower, forty-four floors of glass and money in midtown Manhattan. He knows the building's bones better than anyone. So when a thermal alert points him to Loop 7 - a mechanical loop that doesn't exist on any diagram - he goes looking. What he finds behind an unmarked steel door is a beautiful, lamplit office where peaceful workers watch city populations tick quietly downward, and call it mercy.
Rafa is the one man who walks in and doesn't feel the warm blanket of it. And the cold thing behind that office has noticed him.
What follows is a war fought not with armies but with lit windows: a maintenance man, a borough that refuses to sleep, a wall of names, and a promise carried one degree at a time against an enemy whose only weapon is the whisper that giving up is kindness. From the sub-levels of a lying skyscraper to a vigil that wakes an entire borough, THE MERCY OF NOTHING is an urban supernatural epic about the people who keep the light on - and what it costs them.
Book One of THE MERCY OF NOTHING.
