Prelude: The Decadal Shift.
Book 1: The Infection Protocol.
Same city-machine.
Deeper wound.

Prelude: The Decadal Shift.
Book 1: The Infection Protocol.
Same city-machine.
Deeper wound.
Davan Norel never saw ambition as the opposite of love. Sometimes it's the language love gets trapped inside.
If you've read The Decadal Shift: what's the one line that stayed with you? No spoilers.
If you haven't, start here. The Infection Protocol arrives November 7.
Public roll call:
Rhea, Echo-Seer
Kael, denied pairing, fractured under pressure
Ishren, the weapon the city built
Eshal, the archive that won't flinch
Nira / Davan / Drav, the prelude that makes Book 1 inevitable
I didn't write a comfort read. I wrote a world where "systems hold" is scripture, until a shield engineer's daughter notices the log line that breaks the sermon.
Grief can look like ideology from the outside. Drav Keld isn't a manifesto. He's a father who ran out of acceptable channels.
Before Book 1, the city treated a ceremony like weather. Shield logs. Decadal preparations. A warning nobody wanted on the record.
The Decadal Shift.
The Decadal Shift has a cover.
A mask splitting open. A ceremony nobody was supposed to interrupt. The prelude to The Parasite Wars is live now.
What do you think the mask is hiding?