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PROTOCOLS: A Dark Academia MM Thriller
Gabriel Reyes has spent his life being measured. First by poverty, then by scholarships, then by the brilliant and ruthless Dr. Alistair Gideon, who sees in Gabriel's hunger something worth cultivating—and consuming.
In Gideon's underground laboratory, the boundaries between research and obsession dissolve. The cognitive enhancement protocols promise genius but deliver dependency. The observation promises recognition but demands everything. And the man who watches Gabriel sleep, who traces his jawline with clinical precision, who offers himself as both mentor and destroyer, becomes the only gravity Gabriel knows.
When a former protégé is found dead, Gabriel discovers a conspiracy of contaminated compounds, unreported deaths, and a confession hidden in a dead man's notebook—a confession that names Gabriel as the next variable in Gideon's final experiment.
Years later, as Gideon succumbs to the dementia that will unmake him, Gabriel must expose the man who made him, protect the research that might save thousands, or find, in the wreckage of observation and damage, the possibility of something that might finally, finally be human.
A dark academia thriller about the cost of being seen, the hunger that consumes its own container, and the dangerous space between being measured and being loved.
In Gideon's underground laboratory, the boundaries between research and obsession dissolve. The cognitive enhancement protocols promise genius but deliver dependency. The observation promises recognition but demands everything. And the man who watches Gabriel sleep, who traces his jawline with clinical precision, who offers himself as both mentor and destroyer, becomes the only gravity Gabriel knows.
When a former protégé is found dead, Gabriel discovers a conspiracy of contaminated compounds, unreported deaths, and a confession hidden in a dead man's notebook—a confession that names Gabriel as the next variable in Gideon's final experiment.
Years later, as Gideon succumbs to the dementia that will unmake him, Gabriel must expose the man who made him, protect the research that might save thousands, or find, in the wreckage of observation and damage, the possibility of something that might finally, finally be human.
A dark academia thriller about the cost of being seen, the hunger that consumes its own container, and the dangerous space between being measured and being loved.
86 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 12, 2026
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