THE QUIET WORK

The Quiet Work by Susan Todd

Every city has its ghosts.

They live in the buildings no one inspects twice.
In the complaints that vanish into filing cabinets.
In the tragedies everyone calls “unavoidable.”

Mara Ellison’s job is to check smoke alarms, measure stairwells, and sign off on safety reports. It’s the kind of work nobody notices — until the day a deadly apartment fire reveals that the system meant to protect the city’s most vulnerable has been quietly rewritten by money, influence, and indifference.

Suddenly, one exhausted building inspector stands between thousands of families and the next preventable disaster.

Mara has no badge.
No authority anyone fears.
No protection when powerful people decide she’s become inconvenient.

What she does have is a paper trail nobody wants uncovered…
and the stubborn, dangerous belief that ordinary lives are worth fighting for.

In this gripping and deeply human graphic novel, heroism isn’t about saving the world in a single moment — it’s about refusing to stop saving it, one small decision at a time.

Because sometimes the bravest thing you can do… is simply your job.