He never got the tattoo, but he still wears the scar. In a city where grief rides the subway and saints wear rosaries stamped "Made in China," Danne Almonte is unraveling-fast. Trapped between memory and obsession, he drifts through Washington Heights like a ghost in his own story-haunted by the dragon he never inked, the bond he couldn't hold, and Annie-more mirror than muse-who sees him too clearly. When one bad night widens into a season of reckoning, therapy rooms turn into stages, prophecies flicker under fluorescent light, and algorithms sell new gods. Told in a razor-sharp voice with streetwise humor, DANNE is a jagged, intimate novel about what breaks, what saves, and what won't heal the same.