Torn

by Ron Vitale

In a fractured America ruled by a ruthless new regime, humanity faces an enemy unlike anything it has imagined. An ancient entity from another dimension has fused with a rogue synth—an android indistinguishable from a human—and its growing power leaves entire cities in ruins.

Estranged family unites to stop catastrophic entity destroying dystopian America.

Adam has spent years avoiding his past, but when the creature sets its sights on everything he loves, he and his friend Casey are forced into a desperate fight for survival. Their only hope lies with the people Adam swore he’d never rely on again—his estranged parents, whose secrets may be the key to stopping the unstoppable.

But the new government has issued a brutal if Adam fails, they’ll launch a nuclear strike that will wipe out millions to contain the threat.

With the clock ticking and the world collapsing around him, Adam must confront family betrayal, unravel the entity’s origins, and make an impossible choice—save humanity… or watch it burn.

280 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 13, 2026

About the author

Ron Vitale is a fantasy and science fiction author. He has a Master’s degree in English Literature from Villanova University where he studied the works of Alice Walker and Margaret Atwood, interpreting their novels with a psychological Jungian approach by showing how the central female protagonists in their novels use storytelling as a means to heal themselves from trauma. He lives in a small town outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In the fall of 2008, he published his fantasy novel Dorothea’s Song as an audiobook on Podiobooks and for sale in the Amazon.com Kindle store, and in 2011 he published Lost, the first book in the Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries series, in 2012 the second book in the series, Stolen, was published and in 2014 the third book in the series, Found was released.

Ron has since published Awakenings and Betrayals, books 1 and 2, of the Witch’s Coven Novel series, Faith, the first book in the Jovian Gate Chronicles and Ahab's Daughter, book 1 in the Werewhale Saga. He keeps himself busy by writing his blog, and on learning how to be a good father to his kids all while working on his next book.