Ashfall

If evolution was inevitable..... would you resist it? In a near-future world destabilized by unseen threats, the government enacts the Ashfall Act — drafting every adult citizen into military service. For Elias Vale, a once-celebrated genius who burned too bright too young, it feels like one more system demanding performance from a life already exhausted. But Elias’ obscurity is an illusion. Behind the scenes, Helix Dominion Industries has spent decades researching forced evolution — blending human and animal DNA in pursuit of something stronger, faster, and less fragile than humanity. When leaked footage reveals hybrid trials and containment failures, public outrage explodes — but Dr. Lucien Virex remains calm. “Evolution is not unethical,” he declares. “It is inevitable.” At bootcamp, Elias meets Kaia Serrano — composed, fearless, and lethal with surgical precision. She forces him out of his head and into his body. Together they begin to suspect that the draft, the hybrids, and Helix Dominion are connected. Then Kaia is taken. And Elias is changed. As something inside him awakens, Elias realizes he may not be a casualty of Lucien’s experiments — he may be their design. Now hunted by the very forces that created him, Elias must decide whether evolution is a curse… or a weapon.