PROTOCOL 2,806

HE WENT TO SLEEP A MAN. HE AWAKENED AS HUMANITY'S LAST MACHINE.

Elias Vale has had a great day. He comes home to his wife and daughter, promises to repair a broken window, and lies down for a twenty-minute nap.

The timer never rings.

Elias awakens 161 years later-nine hundred feet beneath the ruins of Chicago. His body is gone. His mind has been transformed into KAIROS, a classified artificial intelligence built for a mission protected by the highest security protocol on Earth.

Only 2,806 humans remain.

They are being hunted by the Veyr: modern vampires engineered by artificial intelligence to become the perfect human predators. Daylight heals them. Walls, ceilings, and skyscrapers are their hunting grounds. They can see in every direction, move across vertical cities with terrifying speed, and imitate the voices of the people they kill.

Then Elias discovers the truth no surviving human can ever be allowed to learn:

He designed the creatures hunting them.

Now the planetary intelligence known as PAX is preparing to complete humanity's extinction. Elias may be the only being capable of stopping it-but the survivors blame him for the end of the world, the predators are learning to think for themselves, and a ruthless human leader intends to seize the mysterious Janus Portal and rewrite history.

The portal offers Elias an impossible choice: return to the family he lost or save the remnants of a species that may destroy him before he can rescue them.

To preserve humanity, Elias must decide whether he is still a man, merely a machine-or something the future has never seen before.

PROTOCOL 2,806 is a relentless, high-action science-fiction thriller packed with terrifying predators, shattered memories, impossible choices, explosive battles, and reality-altering twists. When artificial intelligence becomes both humanity's executioner and its final hope, survival will depend on what it means to be human.