Book One of The Cradle Archives
The Cradle Ledger
A Novel of Corporate Vampirism
What does a vampire do when the age of castles and coffins ends?It incorporates.
In one of the last cities on Earth, that is not a metaphor.
Palladion Biologics sells air, medicine, and shelter on credit, and the man at the top of its tower does not appear in his own records. His hunger runs through the clinics, the housing ledgers, and the debt that decides who keeps breathing. The city calls it care.
Elias Harrow, contract fixer, went up the Vesper Tower to close a routine acquisition. Then he stopped coming home. The records say nothing happened to him.
Archivist Mira Venn is left with the evidence: work orders, clinical charts, consent forms, and fragments that were never meant to be read together. What they reveal is not a murder. It is a system built to make sure its founder never really dies.
Told entirely in documents. For readers of Illuminae grown up, Sleeping Giants, and anyone who felt the dread of Severance.
Book One stands complete.
Documentary science fiction · corporate horror · told entirely in documents
- Title
- The Cradle Ledger
- Subtitle
- A Novel of Corporate Vampirism
- Author
- R. H. Daily
- Genre
- documentary science fiction and corporate horror
- Formats
- Kindle ebook and Paperback
For readers who like
- literary horror
- corporate dystopia
- archive-form storytelling
- vampires without romance
- systems horror
- gothic SF
Contains corporate dystopia, body horror, medical horror, grief, coercive systems, and violence.
THE RECORD DOES NOT STRIKE.