Veil-Breaker

For thousands of years, the Veil has kept humanity blind. It smooths over the impossible. Erases the unexplainable. Maintains the illusion that the world is ordinary, predictable, safe. Beneath it, a war rages in the shadows — Lucent against Dreadbound, light against shadow, conviction against obsession. To the Enlightened who can see, this war is everything. To the rest of mankind, it doesn't exist at all. Kade Moren was never meant to see it. But when a breach tears open his quiet suburban street and two warring gods turn their gaze upon him, Kade doesn't die. He becomes something unprecedented: the first Dual Gaze survivor in recorded history. An anomaly in a system built on absolutes. A boy who carries the imprint of both factions yet belongs to neither. Now the hidden world wants him. The Lucent see him as a weapon to be claimed. The Dreadbound see him as a threat to be destroyed. His own father — a secret scholar of the Enlightened — sees him as an experiment to be observed. And somewhere beyond the Veil, ancient beings who have orchestrated this war for millennia are beginning to notice that their game has developed a wild card. As Kade struggles to control powers that burn away hesitation and amplify his darkest instincts, he uncovers a terrifying truth: the war he's been thrown into may be a lie. The Veil that protects humanity may be a prison. And the only thing more dangerous than the forces watching him... is the monster he is becoming. With the balance of the hidden world fracturing around him, Kade must survive a conspiracy that spans centuries, navigate a father who loves him enough to let him break, and confront the ultimate question: Should humanity remain protected by the Veil? Or should it be shattered?