Neon Genesis (Nightwire Book 1) Kindle Edition

In the neon-choked Duskland Republic of 2734 AC, fourteen-year-old Max McKenzie is trying to survive the only way a clever orphan from Hushline knows how: with jokes, grit, and just enough recklessness to keep despair from winning. A Glenmorian boy haunted by the underground metro crash that killed his parents, Max has spent years outrunning grief in a city that eats the poor and feeds on silence.Then the city touches him back.After a violent encounter in the lower districts, something buried beneath New Duskhaven wakes inside Max’s blood. Green light burns under his skin. Impossible filaments answer his hands. A hidden Synaxis survival interface begins rewriting his body. And beneath the rails and towers of the Republic, ancient machine architecture stirs for the first time in years.As Max and his fierce guardian Morag are hunted by Republic agents, they uncover the truth of Calder Reach: the crash that killed Max’s parents was no accident, but part of a buried containment operation tied to a corrupted Threadkeeper chamber hidden below the city. What lies beneath Duskland is older than the Republic, more dangerous than any gang or street predator, and somehow bound to Max himself.To survive, Max must descend into the black stone underworld beneath the neon skyline, confront the men who turned children into observations, and choose what kind of thing he will become before the city chooses for him.In the dark below New Duskhaven, a boy is marked, a system wakes, and Nightwire is born. Read more