Humanely Raised

Farm Nine raises people humanely. It only harvests those who can still feel guilty.
Nella Vey has never asked what the residents are being raised for. On Pippa's Ascension morning, thirteen notes ring, a red gate opens, and a ceremony becomes something no one is allowed to name. Then a living Ledger wakes beneath Nella's skin and begins recording every refusal the Farm tried to erase.
To save Pippa, Nella must follow the evidence through breeding holds, mercy auctions, medical gardens, and rules designed to make obedience look voluntary. Iven, the physician assigned to keep her useful, may be the only person who can help her understand the system-and one of the people most deeply implicated in it.
Every truth Nella recovers has a price. The Ledger can preserve a no. It can also turn memory into currency. And Farm Nine has already decided which parts of her are worth taking.
Humanely Raised is Book One of The Mercy Farm, a dark speculative fantasy mystery with rule-based institutional horror, found family, deadpan humor, progression mechanics, and a slow-burning romantic thread.