The Violet Trace

In the neon-drenched sprawl of Port City—the former Lagos—human life is the only fuel cheap enough to burn. ​For five years, nineteen-year-old Kaelo has lived as a "ghost" in the subterranean guts of the Republic, clinging to a dying promise to stay legal in a city built on crime. But when a desperate heist goes scorched-earth, Kaelo is forced to touch something he was never meant to find: a jagged shard of a mineral that shouldn't exist. ​Pain is the only teacher. As a recessive gene awakens within him, Kaelo’s biology is rewritten by "Nature Energy," a force invisible to sensors but lethal to anything in its path. ​Caught between a global conspiracy that views him as a failed experiment and a "perfect" mentor with eyes like the void, Kaelo must master the volatile flickers of his power. The road to the top is paved with ash, but at the end of the trace, only the Purple Lightning remains.