Scale and Shadow

The rock that killed the world brought death to billions, but it also brought an alien virus that turned some survivors into something else.

Jebediah Wayne was a farm boy from the Pacific Northwest, living a quiet life until the sky fell. The meteor didn't just shatter the world; it unleashed a mutant virus that turned humanity into a dying breed. Those who survived were hunted by the Revenant-paramilitary soldiers belonging to the Sovereign Accord, a shadowy organization that had been waiting for the collapse of the planet to seize absolute power.

Jeb's family is missing and now the Accord is hunting Jeb for a family secret he doesn't even fully understand yet. They thought he was just a farm kid left alone in the woods to become an easy capture. But Jeb has been infected by the virus and the super-human powers growing in him are making him more predator than prey day by day.

And he isn't alone.

Among the ruins of his homeland, deep in a mountain cave, Jeb discovers garments of protection and a creature of myth: a fire-breathing, human-eating dragon. To the rest of the world, the beast is a ferocious, murderous weapon. To Jeb it becomes his fiercely loyal companion and protector, adding to Jeb's own perseverance in his mission to find his family.

This is hero's journey, a cli-fi thriller, a gritty, high-stakes survival odyssey that contains no vulgar language or sexual content, yet features intense action with fantasy violence and combat.