Veinfrost: Book One

New Haven was built to outlast the Void.

When the sky shattered and Tenebris Syndrome infected humanity, the Apex Council erected a fortress city encased in silver, steel, and surveillance. Society was reordered by rank, with obedience and silence as the price of survival. The Silver Guard, elite soldiers infused with Argentum, a living alloy designed to reshape and control, protect the city from the horrors beyond its walls.

Captain Adelaide Winters, known as the Silver Reaper, is the Council's sharpest weapon.

Efficient. Unfeeling. Absolute.

But when a dangerous new drug known as Quicksilver emerges, it threatens everything the Council has built. Rather than curing infection, Quicksilver accelerates Tenebris Syndrome, transforming infected hosts faster, twisting them into something more ruthless and dangerously intelligent. ARGUS surveillance fails. Containment falters. And whispers of a prophet known as the Silver Saint begin spreading through the Ground Level, promising truth to those willing to follow.

In the heart of the infection is Marcus Cruz, a former Undertaker who survived the massacre in Sector Thirteen. Now infected, altered, and defiant, Marcus moves through the shadows carrying secrets the Council would kill to bury.

As Adelaide investigates the spread of Quicksilver, her neural programming begins to glitch. Memories surface, forbidden resonances awaken, and the carefully engineered spiral beneath her skin pulses with something dangerously human.

New Haven stands on the edge of collapse.

The Silver Saint's whispers grow louder.

And Adelaide must decide if loyalty to the system is worth the cost of remembering who she truly is.