THE FUTURE IN HIS VEINS

Lyra Vale infiltrates a martial-law gala to steal General Cassian Rook’s next order before his drones erase her sister’s floating district. Skin contact lets Lyra hear choices thirty seconds early, while Cassian can hold four contradictory commands until the final instant. Their deeper links cost Lyra random memories and strip Cassian of his voice. When the flooded city begins obeying Lyra’s panic, they uncover a state conspiracy built from her own stolen childhood mind.

A psychic rebel enters the enemy general’s mind to steal his final command—and discovers he already remembers the betrayal she has not committed.