Alex survived the crash, the brutal jungle, and the heart of a dungeon, but the truth her father desperately concealed—secrets that touch ancient villainy—has finally dragged her into the light. When Forgers, long-thought vanquished enemies of her friends' people, erupt through a portal to kidnap her best friend, Alex makes the only choice she she charges through the gate and destroys the path home.
Now stranded on a hostile new world, one where the Forgers plot a sinister takeover using mind-controlling collars and dark science, Alex must choose between exposing her terrifying power or letting her friends become another puppet in their army.
She must thread the razor-thin line between guardian and predator, freeing the bound and tracking the wicked while desperately ranking up inside a system that rewards monstrous progress.
A band of uneven allies—a star-listening Pathfinder, a hopeless Sword Dancer, and a mosquito god with alarming plans—joins her desperate fight, but the stakes become painfully personal when Earth's own darkest secrets return to haunt her. A Forger's raid exposes a horrific human experiments, cloning vats, and collars that threaten to turn every loved one into an obedient tool.
If you crave the raw grit of a weak-to-strong hero battling impossible odds, where survival is measured in both upgrades and the fragments of humanity left behind, then step into That Which Devours.