Lunar Reckoning

Cade Thorne was supposed to die young and forgotten—just another Scrap Rat scavenging the flooded ruins of Old Chicago, nursing a bum leg and a bad attitude. The Red Shift was just a light in the sky. The Ragers were someone else's problem. Then a Void-Touched monster ripped through his salvage rig and sank its teeth into his shoulder. Cade should have turned into a mindless meat-puppet like the other 99%. Instead, he woke up with silver eyes, a hunger for raw flesh, and a voice in his skull that howls every time the moon rises. He's a Stalker. A Newblood. One of the rare few who keeps their sanity when the Lunacy Plague rewrites their DNA. And in a world where the Helios Accord nukes anything with claws, "sanity" is a thin line between hunter and hunted. But Earth is just the beginning. The moon isn't a rock. It's a prison. And the thing inside—the Lupari Primeval, the original beast, the cosmic predator that taught the galaxy to fear the howl—is waking up. It's been calling to its children across the stars. And now, it's calling to Cade. From the flooded gutters of a dying Earth to the blood-soaked arenas of the Galactic Clans, from the shadow-realm of the Nocturne Network to the skull-thrones of Void Sovereigns, Cade Thorne will climb the Red Path. He'll break bones. He'll devour Heartstones. He'll build a Pack out of outcasts and monsters. He'll howl loud enough to shake the galaxy. Because the old rule was simple: Beasts obey the strong. And Cade Thorne is done obeying.