Echoes: Buried in Smoke

Detective Tiwa Ratanakul is running on fumes. Three long months have passed since the killer known only as The Wraith began their reign of terror, leaving nothing behind but bodies and a trail of dead ends. Every lead has crumbled in his hands, every late night at his desk has brought him no closer to an answer. What he didn't expect, however, was being forced to work alongside someone who claims to see the murders. Someone who insists their insights come from visions rather than evidence. Chantara Kittisak, the scandalous heir of a powerful senator, has lived a life built on privilege, excess, and a reputation that couldn't be further from the disciplined world Tiwa inhabits. Rational to the core, Tiwa rejects anything that can't be proven. Tara, with his soft smiles and unsettling certainty, is everything he distrusts. Their partnership is a collision course from the start; ice-cold logic against intuition. Yet as Tara insinuates himself deeper into the investigation, offering details he shouldn't know, Tiwa's suspicion only grows sharper. How does Tara understand the crimes so intimately? Is he manipulating the case from within? Could he be The Wraith himself? Or is the truth something far more insidious? Something reaching back into the past, echoing through memory and smoke, waiting to be unearthed?