Growth has a price. For Warden Elias Graven, expansion means moving from the manageable chaos of a small jail to the high-stakes world of medium-security management. As he builds new infirmaries and isolation blocks, he must also build a partnership with Quinn Seldon, a CFO who sees inmates as numbers rather than people. With the "Iron Brotherhood" tightening its grip on the yard, Elias must prove his reforms can survive a higher class of criminal. This is a story about the cost of building a legacy and the risk of losing the man who started it.