The Box of Dead Heroes by KaCee K Bunn-Smith

For sixty years, Elias Whitlock has carried a box left behind after the death of his father and the legendary heroes who once tried to save Titan.

Now old, homeless, and nearly forgotten by the occupied city around him, Elias finally opens it.

What he finds does not restore the heroes of his childhood. It dismantles them—revealing ordinary people beneath the legends, and forcing Elias to look differently at the living people Titan has taught everyone else not to see.

In a city sustained by rationing, obedience, and soothing official lies, the old are reassigned, the vulnerable disappear, and “Processing” is simply another piece of efficient civic administration.

Elias has spent decades surviving by being unnoticed.

But once he begins noticing others, survival may no longer be enough.

**The Box of Dead Heroes** is a slow-burn adult dystopian dark fantasy about grief, mem