Refuse

Every city has something it throws away.Some secrets don't stay buried.When a routine shift turns into something far darker, a sanitation worker stumbles onto evidence that was never meant to be found. What begins as a single, impossible discovery drags him into a web of corruption, violence, and buried truths that stretch far beyond one alley—or one body.As pressure mounts from every direction, the line between witness and suspect begins to blur. The closer he gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that someone is determined to keep it hidden at any cost. In a city that runs on silence and discarded lives, doing the right thing may be the most dangerous choice of all.Refuse is a gritty, fast-paced crime thriller about unseen labor, moral reckoning, and the things society chooses not to look at—until it's too late.