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Breach Protocol
Pittsburgh is dying.It starts with the water.A strange coppery taste. A handful of violent incidents. Emergency broadcasts warning people to stay indoors. Then the infected begin tearing through the city—and within hours, civilization starts coming apart.Adam Mercer is caught in the middle of the outbreak with only one protecting his daughter, Emily. But after Adam is bitten, survival should become impossible. Everyone else exposed through a bite changes within minutes.Adam doesn’t.Instead, something inside him begins to adapt.His senses sharpen. His strength changes. And the infected start reacting to him as if they recognize something he cannot yet understand.Meanwhile, hospital worker Madison Clarke discovers that the catastrophe is anything but accidental. Someone is watching the outbreak unfold. Someone expected the deaths. And beneath Pittsburgh, Dr. Elias Voss is studying the results of an experiment that has only just begun.As the city collapses around them, Adam and Emily become something far more valuable than survivors.They become anomalies.And whatever is spreading through the population isn’t simply killing people.It’s learning.The Breach Protocol launches a brutal apocalyptic horror series filled with fast-moving infected, biological experimentation, violent survival, mutation, conspiracy, and a father fighting to keep his daughter alive while the virus inside him becomes something new.
78 pages, Hardcover
Published April 5, 2026
About the author
Edward Kress
186 booksEdward Kress is an independent author from the Pittsburgh area whose work crosses horror, thrillers, science fiction, military action, dark fantasy, and children’s fiction.
Within horror, his catalog ranges from supernatural, psychological, cryptid, creature, and survival horror to darker works that venture into extreme and unfiltered territory. His stories explore haunted houses, cursed towns, black lakes, cryptids, wilderness creatures, supernatural predators, serial killers, extradimensional entities, apocalyptic threats, and things that should never have been discovered.
No two Edward Kress stories have to play by the same rules. Some are brutal and graphic. Others build through suspense, isolation, psychological tension, mystery, and dread. Whether the threat is beneath a black lake, hiding among the trees, standing at the end of a hallway, or reaching through from somewhere beyond the known world, his characters can lose everything, his monsters rarely follow the rules, and survival is never guaranteed.
Across genres, Kress’s work explores survival, loyalty, consequence, fear, and the choices people make when confronted with the impossible. His growing catalog includes standalone novels, long-running series, and interconnected fictional universes.
Behind his individual novels and series is an even larger ambition. Kress is gradually weaving his adult fiction into a vast interconnected world, where seemingly separate stories can share characters, places, events, histories, organizations, creatures, and other connections that may only become apparent over time. Each story is designed to stand on its own, while readers who venture deeper into his catalog may discover pieces of a much larger world taking shape around them.
More than 10 Edward Kress titles have reached Amazon Top 100 subgenre rankings, and his catalog accumulated more than 120,000 Kindle Unlimited pages read in under four months.
Edward has been writing for almost thirty years, saving every story, idea, concept, unfinished project, and creative spark along the way. He is now bringing that decades-long archive to publication one story at a time, giving both long-finished stories and ideas carried with him for years their chance to finally reach readers.
Edward writes and independently publishes his work under the Steel City Publishing banner.
Edward Kress writes horror without a safety net. In his darker worlds, no one is guaranteed protection—man, woman, or child. Main characters can fall. Heroes can lose. Monsters can win. Survival is never promised, and no character is safe simply because the reader expects them to be.
Some stories whisper. Some terrify. Some go straight for the throat. But when Edward Kress takes readers into the darkness, there is one rule they can count on:
No one is untouchable.
Within horror, his catalog ranges from supernatural, psychological, cryptid, creature, and survival horror to darker works that venture into extreme and unfiltered territory. His stories explore haunted houses, cursed towns, black lakes, cryptids, wilderness creatures, supernatural predators, serial killers, extradimensional entities, apocalyptic threats, and things that should never have been discovered.
No two Edward Kress stories have to play by the same rules. Some are brutal and graphic. Others build through suspense, isolation, psychological tension, mystery, and dread. Whether the threat is beneath a black lake, hiding among the trees, standing at the end of a hallway, or reaching through from somewhere beyond the known world, his characters can lose everything, his monsters rarely follow the rules, and survival is never guaranteed.
Across genres, Kress’s work explores survival, loyalty, consequence, fear, and the choices people make when confronted with the impossible. His growing catalog includes standalone novels, long-running series, and interconnected fictional universes.
Behind his individual novels and series is an even larger ambition. Kress is gradually weaving his adult fiction into a vast interconnected world, where seemingly separate stories can share characters, places, events, histories, organizations, creatures, and other connections that may only become apparent over time. Each story is designed to stand on its own, while readers who venture deeper into his catalog may discover pieces of a much larger world taking shape around them.
More than 10 Edward Kress titles have reached Amazon Top 100 subgenre rankings, and his catalog accumulated more than 120,000 Kindle Unlimited pages read in under four months.
Edward has been writing for almost thirty years, saving every story, idea, concept, unfinished project, and creative spark along the way. He is now bringing that decades-long archive to publication one story at a time, giving both long-finished stories and ideas carried with him for years their chance to finally reach readers.
Edward writes and independently publishes his work under the Steel City Publishing banner.
Edward Kress writes horror without a safety net. In his darker worlds, no one is guaranteed protection—man, woman, or child. Main characters can fall. Heroes can lose. Monsters can win. Survival is never promised, and no character is safe simply because the reader expects them to be.
Some stories whisper. Some terrify. Some go straight for the throat. But when Edward Kress takes readers into the darkness, there is one rule they can count on:
No one is untouchable.
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