"Severed Blood"

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She reads the dead for a living. Her own blood is the one sample she can't let anyone run. In Singapore's gleaming clinics, Marisol Salazar has built a life on control — a careful monster who kills clean, feeds quiet, and answers to no hunger she'll name aloud. She's the best medical laboratory scientist in the city, and no one knows why the dead give up their secrets so easily to her. Then Madame Shen's people begin harvesting her kind for the marrow that keeps the rich forever young — and the only surgeon who can see what she truly is turns out to be the one person she cannot afford to love. To save him, Marisol will have to stop hiding in the cold and choose the hunger — and learn what her kind has always known: that some things you love, you can only keep by tearing them apart. Surgical body horror, ancient appetite, and the terrible arithmetic of love. First in a trilogy. Content note: graphic violence and body horror. A dark read.